sus
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Don't need an in-depth review just a 15-point scale, following the scoring system enumerated.
Beyond Reason: The Top Ten
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- ben lerner's furrowed brow far beyond reason have you been injured at work impregnating the culture islamist fundraiser language is my phallus pulverizing razor wire compound taking the blade to a charity worker the age of reason the moral connotations of furniture the pitfalls of avant-garde etiquette the sexual sublime the true lodge waiting for goffman
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I agree but these subsidiary terms have a habit of mistakenly acquiring a life of their own cf sex and gender. It is for this reason it's important to confirm their proper status on a regular basis.
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Check the thread title my man
WashYourHands
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Bath was quite nice today, t-shirt warm and endless blue skies
Definitely a @sus gaff architecturally, add little stalls selling lavender honey and vegan pate. One of the cunts who works with HughFearnleyfuckface had a plot and a few photos of HughFearnleyff dotted round, just in case you were in any doubt of HFff associations
Bath university has a pukka campus overall, felt like Steptoe averting the perv gaze. Got offered heroin for £5 a bag in town, saw a bonnet porn tour of American ladies all trying to look like Jane Austen. Went to eat at a certain establishment but colleagues stated it looked “too Covidey”, which is a new one for description so went to a chippy instead (cheap cunts)
Been to Bath Gus? It’s like Bristol but without so many patchouli soaked out-and-out crusties, like Palo Alto but with a hot spring even the Romans were wary of pillaging or renaming
Given fatigue, I’d score this post 10 for coherence, 15 for detail and 20 for finding this while google imaging for something to disturb your sensibilities
Definitely a @sus gaff architecturally, add little stalls selling lavender honey and vegan pate. One of the cunts who works with HughFearnleyfuckface had a plot and a few photos of HughFearnleyff dotted round, just in case you were in any doubt of HFff associations
Bath university has a pukka campus overall, felt like Steptoe averting the perv gaze. Got offered heroin for £5 a bag in town, saw a bonnet porn tour of American ladies all trying to look like Jane Austen. Went to eat at a certain establishment but colleagues stated it looked “too Covidey”, which is a new one for description so went to a chippy instead (cheap cunts)
Been to Bath Gus? It’s like Bristol but without so many patchouli soaked out-and-out crusties, like Palo Alto but with a hot spring even the Romans were wary of pillaging or renaming
Given fatigue, I’d score this post 10 for coherence, 15 for detail and 20 for finding this while google imaging for something to disturb your sensibilities
linebaugh
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Re: Sexual Personae, the parts where shes talking about specific artifacts are great. This is on the bust of nefertiti
"Nefertiti’s head is so massive it threatens to snap the neck like a stalk. She is like a papyrus blossom swaying on its river reed. The head is swollen to the point of deformity. She seems futuristic, with the enlarged cerebrum foreseen as the destiny of our species. The crown is filled like a funnel with a rain of hierarchic energy, flooding the fragile brain-pan and violently pushing the face forward like the prow of a ship. Nefertiti is like the Winged Victory of Samothrace, garments plastered back by the wind of history. As cargo, Nefertiti carries her own excess of thought. She is weighed down by Apollonian wakefulness, a sun that never sets. Egypt invented the pillar, which Greece would refine. With her slim aristocratic neck, Nefertiti is a pillar, a caryatid. She bears the burden of state upon her head, rafters of the temple of the sun. The golden brow-band is a ritual bridle, squeezing, constricting, limiting. Nefertiti presides from the temenos of power, a sacred precinct she can never leave."
"Nefertiti’s head is so massive it threatens to snap the neck like a stalk. She is like a papyrus blossom swaying on its river reed. The head is swollen to the point of deformity. She seems futuristic, with the enlarged cerebrum foreseen as the destiny of our species. The crown is filled like a funnel with a rain of hierarchic energy, flooding the fragile brain-pan and violently pushing the face forward like the prow of a ship. Nefertiti is like the Winged Victory of Samothrace, garments plastered back by the wind of history. As cargo, Nefertiti carries her own excess of thought. She is weighed down by Apollonian wakefulness, a sun that never sets. Egypt invented the pillar, which Greece would refine. With her slim aristocratic neck, Nefertiti is a pillar, a caryatid. She bears the burden of state upon her head, rafters of the temple of the sun. The golden brow-band is a ritual bridle, squeezing, constricting, limiting. Nefertiti presides from the temenos of power, a sacred precinct she can never leave."
sus
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@WashYourHands Did you accept the h-bag? What's pukka? Did you not go in the hot spring?
sus
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@linebaugh what a waste, she could've written like that her entire career, we could've gotten books on The Avengers, instead she spent all her life-force on talk shows trying to win a culture war, prematurely aged a decade
linebaugh
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I assume suspended said he thinks I would like it cause its pynchonesque. Not just because its about scientists gone mad but also because its an intense associative exercise- the way hes able to weave all these disparate facts across disciplines in one essay is really entertaining, particuatly the first essay that intertwines 300 years of art history and chemical warfare.
sus
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I only read the first chapter FWIW. Been debating going further, but that first chapter's great