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I want to know if they listen to medieval and early modern vocal music, and if so, what!

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How many people will be using that synth mod you guys got? All of the em?

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i heard/that your band/is selling their copies of minima moralia and buying turntables

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something like ”kuhelosigkeit,” the condition of cowlessness

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oh no - hope your bank can put a stop on it.

There is a certain style of attention-seeking that suggests a combination of ambition and loose morals.

always innovating up the hill!

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I really, really love the faculty/faulty parapraxis here and I celebrate you for it.

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ha! and both have a similar failure mode - sogginess.

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I left public conversations about the future of technology not out of techno-pessimism but out of deep skepticism about the intellectual merit of those conversations.

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It could be the color red, or it could be "loudness" in general, which men tend to avoid, or relegate it to the upper body if they indulge at all?

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Yes, exactly - the only American men who had a taste for them were the (not around much now) preppies, on weekends.

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One of the peculiarities of English men is their willingness to wear pink or red trousers; one of the peculiarities of American men is their unwillingness.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is my favorite of the newer Star Trek shows. It has a great sense of humor about itself and, very intelligently, de-emphasizes series-long plot arcs and stresses, instead, one-off episodes. Plus Ethan Peck is a very good Spock!

one assumes Adorno had nothing against stringed instruments per se.

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when I teach, and end up offering something advice-shaped to students, I tell them that all the mistakes I made in my education from like 15-24 had to do with wanting to accelerate.

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I've met some great, quirky people who went through simon's rock (etc) or the deep springs (etc) version of college, but these kinds of schooling shouldn't be taken as generalizable models for overhauling education. And since my own precociousness was made much of, let me say: it was bad for me.

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Job is the little death that moves through me; I will face my job

It is false that artists (musicians, writers, etc) do their best work while young, but true that few can continue to do their best work after a certain level of success and recognition. The age-related decline is an illusion; success is the real killer.

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Blackwing pencils are totally worth the money, and is was not at all self-indulgent of me to pair mine with a Blackwing sharpener.

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melon and prosciutto is absolutely [academia absolutely does have a groupthink problem, it's just not what the conservatives say] delicious

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The most heartbreakingly true adage is that people show you who they are, and you should believe them.

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You could view it as weird that the NYT treats Harvard as though it were representative of US higher ed - or you could conclude that the NYT mostly cares about elite America, and stop expecting an equal treatment of community colleges.

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Perhaps it is a cliche that the Odyssey is far more interesting - deeper into the psychic waters - than the Iliad, but it is nevertheless true.

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What is grand about French cuisine is not the dishes that depend on the "mother sauces" but, instead, the very high quality of specific products - cheeses, butters, breads, sausages. You can eat better at an open-air market in Paris than in many restaurants.

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Oceans are wonderful, but sandy beaches offer little to the discerning; rocky ones offer a great deal.

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Thoreau's bit about bewaring all enterprises that require new clothes is utter rubbish; you should instead seek them out.

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OK OK I relent: when presented with a buffet of sandwiches at a catered event, the caprese is your safe bet.

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1 like = 1 opinion whose optics will tempt my critics to call me a "heterodox liberal" despite my protests jk jk can you imagine

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fellow readers of western massachusetts news, we have missed an opportunity. As J. Richman might have put it, "I was masking at the lesbian bar/ooo/ooo"

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I like the fantasy that the publicity windows for books have gotten really wide.

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I was once told that I'm taller than my social media persona led them to expect. Fair, in fact.

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