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“The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.”

— Anton Chekhov, in a letter to A.S. Suvorin. (April 13, 1895)

Natalie Babbitt. From Tuck Everlasting

#natalie babbitt

Song · 1993 · Duration 3:38

No chance this monday

funeral

Anyone who escapes the ordinary categories and distinctions by which we define ourselves and each other indirectly threatens the identities of other people, who are likely to react with a violent impulse to reenvisage this defector from the identity regime. By refusing the distinctions of prestige and status, you threaten to reveal their arbitrariness to the world, and those whose very being depends on those distinctions will fight to prevent that, without even knowing what they are doing.

Alexander Douglas, Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self

oh simone

#simone de beauvoir

I want to speak with someone so intelligent and so quick-thinking that it feels as if I am on drugs.

apocryphics

Nevertheless, considerations which start from the subject remain false to the same extent that life has become appearance […] The subject still feels sure of its autonomy, but the nullity demonstrated to subjects by the concentration camp is already overtaking the form of subjectivity itself. Subjective reflection, even if critically alerted to itself, has something sentimental and anachronistic about it: something of a lament over the course of the world, a lament to be rejected not for its good faith, but because the lamenting subject threatens to become arrested in its condition and so to fulfil in its turn the law of the world's course. Fidelity to one's own state of consciousness and experience is forever in temptation of lapsing into infidelity, by denying the insight that transcends the individual and calls his substance by its name.

Thedor Adorno

#adorno #minima moralia #banger