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It's wild that people think mental conditions like depression aren't at least partly psychological reflections of the state of the world and one's opportunities within it. It's genuinely wild that external factors aren't considered primary causes, that invisible "chemical states" are instead posited

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The "fine details" of this article: *Well technically,* you can go to college and get an "almost good deal," but it'll have to be public, it must be in-state (hope you're in a good one!), oh and, we didn't mention this, but 6-8% interest on non-dischargeable debt, and good luck with grad school!

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Contrary that article from a few months ago, I'd say, especially with literature, one almost never regrets engaging with primary sources, but it's common to regret engaging with secondary literature, especially essays in journals

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the earth is moonogamous, if you think about it

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's the footnotes that really add up!

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In terms of art and culture, not really. Bad people with bad views and shit politics tend to lack the empathetic connection to the world, as it really is, that creating things like great literature presupposes C.f. "why aren't conservatives funny," "why are conservative movies so bad," etc.

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"People like to say that Blood Meridian is the Moby Dick of the desert (flattering the former). Along these lines, whereas Lolita is evil in motion, The Collector is evil underground. Lolita is an evil tour of America, whereas The Collector is a live burial in the English countryside."

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Reflections on The Collector (1963) by John Fowles and the “Crude Materialism” of Literary Scandals | kmichaelwilson

I’ve been reading The Collector (1963) by John Fowles and thinking about its historical parallels to Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), with, as usual

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Confusing! If it's really so popular, why would I need to seek it out? Hasn't it already gotten enough attention? If it lasts, won't it creep involuntarily into my life? I never had to seek out Gangnam Style; people would blare it outside my window from big speakers in the courtyard

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I *wish* academics read for a living Humanities academics do bureaucracy and, in the small hours of the night, publish quasi-theoretical exercises in tendentiousness euphemistically called "essays" for a living

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I might start going around and triggering people by arguing that John Fowles is better than Nabokov

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

full moon, good night to revisit the ruins of Prospect Garden (ch. 108) 🕯️😢📚🌺👻

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

working on some creative writing this morning, and there's this dialogue that I just find myself not wanting to write, and I'm thinking... maybe this feeling is meaningful? Maybe this dialogue isn't needed?

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

still reading this big boy

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The answer to the puzzle is that academic laborers are, indeed, members of the working class—poorly organized ones who are increasingly being phased out of existence, as their labor is only really "essential" in the context of a democratic society

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[out of nowhere comment, oddly specific, no citation, underlying reasoning not explicated, posted at midnight] there's really only around 2000 novels you "need" to read

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

yeah, that raven do *still* be sitting on my pallid, busted mind palace

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Perversely, the scarcer positions get, the more that people who win the academic lottery insist upon their own merit and superiority, distancing themselves from the "unwashed hoards" of surplus phd holders and not realizing the isolation they're reinforcing makes them even more vulnerable

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this unambiguously and inarguably applies to universities as well

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me: wow, my reading queue is pretty full at the moment also me: wow, Clive Barker's Imajica sounds fascinating, I could probably squeeze it in

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Ruby the Lil' Buddy @rubyraspberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

just the most obvious things imaginable... c'mon, man

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like we're all very aware of the silly shit that can happen in community, but things are never gonna get better if we're gonna put that shit on blast in some ragebait piece that paints everyone in the worst light possible and is made with the intent for people to read it and go "haha freeeeaks"

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its roy @roygbiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

jsyk, if you fall for hit pieces like this instead of first asking what the angle might be in publishing yet another piece where the crazy villains are cripples and trans women, the word for what you are is "a mark"

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Pro tip, freshman lit students: you can always just say such-and-such work is a "meta-commentary on literature" it's meta-commentaries all the way down; you'll never hit bottom

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I'm now on Storygraph as well as Goodreads? 🤷‍♂️ Considering add me to either app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kmic... www.goodreads.com/user/show/12...

app.thestorygraph.com

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I'm now on Storygraph as well as Goodreads? 🤷‍♂️ Considering add me to either app.thestorygraph.com/profile/kmic... www.goodreads.com/user/show/12...

app.thestorygraph.com

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Pro tip, freshman lit students: you can always just say such-and-such work is a "meta-commentary on literature" it's meta-commentaries all the way down; you'll never hit bottom

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI is probably the clearest historical example of "enclosure of the commons" there has never been a clearer case for an entity that, if it is to exist, it should only exist in a form held and governed by a democratic collective we absolutely do not need to "embrace" that it merely exists

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Now you're playing with power!

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now you're playing with power!

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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In my most blackpilled moments, I think that many academics don't really believe in democracy and instead are entertaining fantasies of establishing hereditary academic castes, at least until the real (monied) elites sweep in to create whole new departments in the ashes of their feudal aspirations

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when you engage with Qing literature (and not just top-down historical records), it's stunning to feel immersed in a culture where it was at least plausible that corrupt officials could feel shame over not being able to compose poetry

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logged into facebook for the first time in weeks to see mutuals' praising Dungeon Crawler Carl (23+ likes, 20 comments, all laudatory)... I don't know how, but would love to redirect all this sub-literary energy into real-literary excitement

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🚨Last call🚨, deadline is 9/22! Submit your paper proposals this weekend!

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imagine being Chinese in the 14th C., traveling all the way to Hormuz, marrying a local woman and converting to Islam, then returning home to China only to have your relatives complain that Farsi "sounds like owl screeching" and the script "resembles worms"

Southern Han Chinese. [22||23] The biography of Lin Nu says he married a Semu girl and converted to Islam at a mosque in Hormuz in 1384 before coming back to China. [24] Li Guangqi said his uncle Lin Nu's marriage to the foreign girl and conversion to her religion caused his branch of the family to exclude his uncle's descendants from the genealogy because they practiced Islam and change the surname of his own branch of the family to Li to disassociate them from the Lin surname.[25] Li Guangqi attacked the religion and customs of the Semu including Islam and other foreign religions saying they were incompatible with Chinese/Confucian culture and that their language sounded like owl screeching and their script resembled worms

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🚨Last call🚨, deadline is 9/22! Submit your paper proposals this weekend!

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So-called "centrists" obfuscating the proximity of their own beliefs and policies to fascism by conflating Mao and Stalin with Hitler has significantly contributed to the rise of Nazism today. That's the only meaningful way to engage with this "debate."

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working on my Zhuchuyuan 駐春園 write-up; spoiler: it's fairly mid cannot believe it's trying to call itself the Tenth Genius Novel《第十才子駐春園》, lol get real

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