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#11 Comments on Culture
Why I feel the Vice article on Letting GenZ make reels in art museums is flawed.
May 8, 2023
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August 2022
#10 The Universal Sorrow of Indecision
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s…
Aug 21, 2022
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There Should be Hope, A Return to Writing
There are little moments you’ll inhabit hope, in times of grief. And then just like grief, you will carry it in its perpetuity through nostalgia. You…
Aug 13, 2022
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March 2022
#9 On Smoking Cigarettes
The tired cliché of misery and insubordination, of a lonely protagonist in some darkened recesses of a balcony or a room, smoking cigarettes has always…
Mar 13, 2022
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January 2022
#2 Thoughts and Content
A lot of Kafka, Essays and a Book Review
Jan 15, 2022
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#8 Mourning as a Spatial Narrative
“What I find utterly terrifying is mourning’s discontinuous character.” -Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary
Jan 10, 2022
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November 2021
Upfront #1: The Idealism of Youth
Upfront is a new series where I go candid. We talk about my personal views on various things that I have been observing in the culture or around me. I…
Nov 8, 2021
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October 2021
#7 On Empathy
The afternoon forecast shows another bright hot day. You are tired of the sun, so you block all light that can enter your room. You like it like this…
Oct 17, 2021
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September 2021
#6 Catalogue of Confusion
It is listening to two writers talk on the internet. It does not remember what was said in the past hour, but it is listening. It is wondering if the…
Sep 26, 2021
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#5 On Conversations, Language and Feeling Understood
When we hear someone talking about their experience, we say that we understand. What is this feeling of understanding? What is the feeling of being…
Sep 12, 2021
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August 2021
#4 Rain and Nothingness
Rain and the Philosophy of Emil Cioran
Aug 29, 2021
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#3 Something Human
Dear reader, In the past few weeks, I am trying to find a comfort in knowledge, that accepts the paucity of hope in this world and yet doesn’t distrust…
Aug 22, 2021
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