#Pittsburgh #Acrisurestadium — soon to be filled with Taylor Swift fans. Love all the outfits I am seeing! 🛥️ 
#Pittsburgh ☀️ 
Beautiful day in #Pittsburgh! I walked in the Juneteenth Parade ❤️🖤💚 & now I’m taking a moment to enjoy ice tea in Market Square— watching all the Taylor Swift Concert goers take pics before tonight’s concert! https://nostr.build/av/6099cf4d0fa1bba4bfe91559702012306c16dda26499bf0914e54c0a61e7f846.mov
Looks like the link got munged, I think it should be: https://lithub.com/happy-bloomsday-turn-off-your-wifi-and-read-some-joyce/
lithub has great stuff
Thank you!! They are a treasure chest of great literary essays.
Whose side is he on?! Clues throughout the video 💜 Anyway— love this video & 🎶 https://youtu.be/GmHrjFIWl6U
Have a good day! I’m heading to the city for Juneteenth Festivities!
What spoke to me initially was that I don’t need an invite code to start participating in Nostr or even a Bitcoin Wallet.
I understand the need to “pilot” a project (develop organically as they say)— but then it turns into something exclusive & power hierarchies emerge.
Yes, I agree. It’s an interesting emotion!
“I publish to be read. It's the only thing that interests me about publication. So I employ all the strategies I know to capture the reader's attention, stimulate curiosity, make the page as dense as possible and as easy as possible to turn. But once I have the reader's attention I feel it is my right to pull it in whichever direction I chooseI don't think the reader should be indulged as a consumer, because he isn't one. Literature that indulges the tastes of the reader is a degraded literature. My goal is to disappoint the usual expecta- tions and inspire new ones.” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6370/the-art-of-fiction-no-228-elena-ferrante
~Elena Ferrante
One more…
“Every human being receives an annunciation: and with pregnant souls we press one hand to our throat in fear and anguish. As if at some point in all our lives, we each receive the annunciation of a mission to fulfill. The mission is not an easy one: each of us is responsible for the whole world.” ~Clarissa Lispector
#[2] tell me again what you know about Clarissa Lispector & the Italian artist Angelo Savelli. Thanks! 
A favorite page from my one of my favorite authors: Clarice Lispector (Too Much Of Life)
“JORNAL DO BRASIL: 1969
Holy Mother of God, even I am frightened by my lack of modesty; but it's not that. Humility as a technique is this: only by approaching the thing with humility can we ensure that it does not escape us completely. I discovered this type of humility, which is actually a rather odd form of pride. Pride is not a sin, at least not a very grave one: pride is a childish fault like having too sweet a tooth. Except that pride has the enormous disadvantage of being a grave error, and given how errors delay life, makes one waste a lot of time.
HEROES
Even in Camus— there’s that love of heroism. Aren't there many ways of being a hero? Even understanding is heroism.
Cannot a man simply open a door and look out?” 
Happy Bloomsdays to my James Joyce lovers/Irish folk out there.
“How do we put these desires—maternal, paternal, filial, marital, and illicit—into action without force, injustice, insult, or hate? When do we yield, with love, to the pleasure of ignorance? These are the questions which keep a reader coming back to “Ulysses,” as Molly keeps coming to the love letters she remembers receiving, sometimes “4 or 5 times” a day. Or 9 or 10, depending on the reader’s appetite.” ~Merve Emre https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/the-seductions-of-ulysses
Happy Bloomsdays to my James Joyce lovers/Irish folk out there.
“How do we put these desires—maternal, paternal, filial, marital, and illicit—into action without force, injustice, insult, or hate? When do we yield, with love, to the pleasure of ignorance? These are the questions which keep a reader coming back to “Ulysses,” as Molly keeps coming to the love letters she remembers receiving, sometimes “4 or 5 times” a day. Or 9 or 10, depending on the reader’s appetite.” ~Merve Emre https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/the-seductions-of-ulysses
I’ve gotten in the habit of jumping back & forth to see how my notes look on different clients. This is probably a good thing for me— allowing fluidity into my experience. Less quicksand— more portals.
“But although codebreaking has entered the popular imagination through the portal of war, often depicted with a kind of intellectual glamor that aligns it with spies and superheroes, it spans a far vaster cultural spectrum of uses as a tool of communication and un-communication.”https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/11/code-girls-liza-mundy/
(space mistake) https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/11/code-girls-liza-mundy/
“But although codebreaking has entered the popular imagination through the portal of war, often depicted with a kind of intellectual glamor that aligns it with spies and superheroes, it spans a far vaster cultural spectrum of uses as a tool of communication and un-communication.”https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/11/code-girls-liza-mundy/