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"Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Remember when the pride of America used to Punch Nazis at every possible opportunity instead of saluting them? and also casually drag up and it was no biggy

Make America Punch Nazis again

#captainamerica #punchanazi
Laser Moose is back!
An epidemic is spreading through the forest,the animals are changing: their eyes turn purple, then they start sneezing out spiderwebs. And the biting begins. Can Laser Moose& Rabbit Boy get to the bottom of the mystery before the spider controls the entire forest?
#lasermoose
It almost reads like a Leonard Cohen lyric, it's softly heartbreaking , everything about it; the fading ink, the yellow paper, that's it's pasted down. Everything.

#leonardcohen #leonardcohenpoetry #leonardcohenlyrics #bookinscriptions #bookdedication #dancemetotheendoflove #notesinabook
You ever get an unexpected unexplained,uncontrollable urge to deep dive an author without never reading a word before
That's me& Ira Levin, this summer I'm reading through his 7 or 8 novels he produced over 40 odd some years, including I've discovered a late sequel to Rosemary's Baby
#iralevin
Why Charles Laughton never directed another movie is beyond me, it's also beyond me that it was turned into a Musical
But everything else about this book is perfect, there's a palpability even on the page , on every page, of dread and impending doom. Southern Gothic at its best
#nightofthehunter
Now I like a book as a Christmas present but maybe Milgram's notorious electric shock experiment isn't the best stocking filler for your grandchildren

#stanleymilgram #milgramexperiment #obey #obedience #authoritarianism #authoritarianstate #fascism #authoritarianpersonality
"the breaking down of all individual resistance, is the condition of life in this society. Donald Duck in the cartoons and the unfortunate in real life get their thrashing so that the audience can learn to take their own punishment."
-Adorno & Horkheimer Dialectic of Enlightenment #donaldduck
Its a door that swings both ways-a revoling door maybe, not an existing door, not a separation of one room and another, but an antechamber perhaps, not either this or that, not either proust or deleuze but both and
The Man Himself
I'm not sure if I'd really want to see a play or a movie of proust, it's the ultimate reading experience really

#proust #rememberanceofthingspast #greatbooks #frenchliterature #greatreads #insearchoflosttime #marcelproust #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #penguinbooks #swannsway
An Adaption of an Adaption
Harold Pinter produced a screenplay for a movie (unmade) adaptation of Proust's novel, then about 30 years later adapted that into a stage play which premiered in 2000

#proust #screenplay #stageplay #playscript #haroldpinter #rememberanceofthingspast #insearchoflosttime
The Lynchverse Exists
Don't bother trying to find the entrance, you're already in it.

#davidlynch #lynchian #lynchverse #eraserhead #eraserheadfanfic #thepinwormfactory
Are souls fated by ill winds
winking in and out of existence, can the void in our souls be filled with big warm acts of love can we merge our souls as one or will cracks appear
Bum magic holds your answers, but beware this kind of play isn't for everyone!
Anomancy available now round the back!
What if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich
Chapoutot traces the profound links between Nazism and the principles of modern corporate management, our definitions of success, and a concept of personal freedom that masks rigid hierarchical structures of power and control
Are You Reading #Montesquieu? You Should Be!

"When in the same person, the legislative authority is combined with the executive authority, there is no freedom, because one can fear lest the same monarch make tyrannical laws...All would be lost if the same man...exercised these three powers"
You might know Daniel Easterman by the name Jonathan Aycliffe, horror writer extraordinaire, but from the mid 80s on, he produced some cracking politically imbued thriller novels
This one I think about a lot; it's WW2 and the Klan rule America