Late Night #Reading music: https://youtu.be/cQWTJ_HLPyM
“It was like 4 in the morning in Miami…” #Shakira ❤️ this. https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/20-years-of-laundry-service/1594934313
She came up with the melody & lyrics “at the same time” at 4 in the morning! Love when artists share their moments of inspiration. It fascinates me.
we are having another creative burst — a moment when you produce something off key.
My source:
“This is all better said by Kierkegaard, in a parable:
"The Dog Kennel by the Palace"
To what shall we compare the relation between the thinker's system and his actual existence?”
A thinker erects an immense building, a system, a system which embraces the whole of existence and world-history etc.-and if we contemplate his personal life, we discover to our astonishment this terrible and ludicrous fact, that he himself personally does not live in this immense high-vaulted palace, but in a barn alongside of it, or in a dog kennel, or at the most in the porter's lodge. If one were to take the liberty of calling his attention to this by a single word, he would be offended. For he has no fear of being under a delusion, if only he can get the system completed . . . by means of the delusion.” ~Zadie Smith
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669582/intimations-by-zadie-smith/9780593297612
Back to the thought of holding: Tell me about Kierkegaard’s The Dog Kennel By The Palace
Hold that thought. Tell me about Heraclitus
“This type of woman and that type of woman--just so many life rings thrown to a drowning Heraclitus. Each one a different form of fiction. Is it possible to be as flexible on the page as shamelessly self-forgiving and ever changing as we are in life? We can't seem to find the way. Instead, to write is to swim in an ocean of hypocrisies, moment by moment. We know we are deluded, but the strange thing is that this delusion is necessary, if only temporarily, to create the mold in the first place, the one into which you pour everything you can't give shape to in life. This is all better said by Kierkegaard, in a parable:
"THE DOG KENNEL BY THE PALACE"
~Zadie Smith from her book Intimations 
“It was like 4 in the morning in Miami…” #Shakira ❤️ this. https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/20-years-of-laundry-service/1594934313
I will educate you soon.
#JackGilbert #PittsburghHistory #bookstr https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/59983/the-dance-most-of-all-by-jack-gilbert/ 
#[1] tell me what you know about Jack Gilbert
#JackGilbert #PittsburghHistory #bookstr https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/59983/the-dance-most-of-all-by-jack-gilbert/
💃🏻🔥 — summer jam https://youtu.be/h0LTQtSeTqo
Great advice— as a newbie myself— this is greatly appreciated!
He is fascinating. I’ve always wanted to read this biography of Salk (‘Jonas Salk: A Life,’ by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs) — I remembered it recently & thought of this review
“On the cover of Time magazine’s 1999 tribute to the 100 “greatest minds” of the 20th century is a rendering of Einstein on a couch being psychoanalyzed by Freud. On the table beside them is a photo of Jonas Salk. Some may dispute the comparison, but the message is clear. Salk remains the people’s scientist, the man who connected the wonders of the laboratory to the suffering of humankind — the man who saw beyond the microscope.” #PittsburghHistory
I snuck over to Book Twitter this morning via the browser— so I had limited access, but I did witness a professor getting snippy with another person in the literary field about a phrase (concept) that has now captured my imagination.
No matter where you go in the world— there are those who want to dominate — a place, an idea, a direction...
Furthermore, these same people might also have a difficult time handling their envy.
And then you have those who experience these urges & emotions but don’t lose sight of their vision— so are willing to walk the bridge with their opponents for a variety of purposes.
Envy & (my newly discovered concept) — these topics are holding my attention right now.
Who says Home Runs are gone?! 💛🖤 