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bookstr is banned 😉
I love reading Chekhov— his prose often makes me cry in a transforming way.
yummy! Morning here— about to meet a friend for coffee!
yes please. I archive mine on insta so permanent ones are not a problem for me.
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“Contemporary readers will also detect a hint—in essays like those on Citroens and the marketing of margarine through an early version of the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” campaign—of the current practice of “semiotic brand analysis,” when companies hire intelligent people, usually with an undergraduate background in the classes Eugenides makes fun of, to explain to them how to increase the appeal of their own brands.” Roland Barthes: Myths We Don’t Outgrow https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/roland-barthes-myths-we-dont-outgrow
Started reading Roland Barthes this week #bookstr #summer 📖☀️ 
“Contemporary readers will also detect a hint—in essays like those on Citroens and the marketing of margarine through an early version of the “I can’t believe it’s not butter” campaign—of the current practice of “semiotic brand analysis,” when companies hire intelligent people, usually with an undergraduate background in the classes Eugenides makes fun of, to explain to them how to increase the appeal of their own brands.” Roland Barthes: Myths We Don’t Outgrow https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/roland-barthes-myths-we-dont-outgrow
“Uncle, I’m ready for my bride now,” he said.
Took this pic at MoMA 2022 
#evening #poem
Good Night
“A Doe Replaces Iphigenia on the Sacrificial Altar”
BY ROBYN SCHIFF
“There was a need
to be weak and I met
it. I appeared in the confusion
between strength and
surrender, as if out of nowhere,
that’s the illusion.
I was reared
ruminating
in a thicket of
sorrow with a beautiful
string of drool
hanging out the side of my
mouth like a loose
phosphorescent
tether.
How will I know
what to do, I wondered.
No one does, my mother said.
And then, as the drawing back of the ocean
before a tsunami
suddenly exposes
outrageous fish on the seabed, gasping,
a great inhalation placed me
here panting on the sacred grass.
I feel like a girl in heaven,
but I am a beast in a clearing.
I came to
as the wind picked up
and in the bay
as the tide
came in,
what a blow to mankind,
an animalcrude wind
to war, toward
war, untoward
toward war
took my breath
away with it.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89515/a-doe-replaces-iphigenia-on-the-sacrificial-altar
Warning: This book is very graphic. If you read it, prepare yourself emotionally if needed. There is an extraordinary & chilling conversation between one of the bullied characters & another— who is not the main bully— but the “Nietzsche” of the physically and/or emotionally aggressive group. I would quote it— but somethings are better left in the context of the novel.
“Yet Kawakami is interested neither in demonstrating what makes people good nor in delighting in their antisocial perversities. Rather, her project is, like Nietzsche’s, a genealogical one. Her novels trace how terms of moral value evolve—how “good” and “evil,” or “pain” and “pleasure,” get affixed to ordinary interactions: becoming friends or becoming enemies, fighting or refusing to fight, falling in love or falling into indifference. Her plots offer not a moral education according to the precepts of God but an exploration of how our language of morality is grounded in the shifting power among human beings.” ~Merve Emre #bookstr nostr:note1le72yccd823uqyzctk89evehlhmmdah0a8rd7wd6umf96e7awjcqflnw0a
I took this photo last Thursday #clouds #CMU #museum #courtyards #summer 
Take time to rest and heal 💜🙏
