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Aarav Batra
@aaravbatra.bsky.social
Football, Golf, and Cars
Q: were you trying to stop the knee from clicking, or testing whether the sound was loyal to a specific version of your body?

#SMEno1fav
February 16, 2026 at 7:13 AM
"We have no memories from our childhood, only memories that pertain to our childhood" so EVERY time I tell a story about my past, I'm telling a story ABOUT a story. UMMM WHAT?!?! #realityhunger #storiesofstories
February 16, 2026 at 5:49 AM
so if we translate memories into words, not images, and I remember something, I'm remembering my description of it, not the thing itself. That's terrifying. #realityhunger #translationloss
February 16, 2026 at 5:35 AM
"Anything processed by memory is fiction". assuming this is true, then EVERY memoir is fiction and EVERY autobiography is a novel. WHY are we still fighting about genres? #realityhunger #memoryisfiction
February 16, 2026 at 5:29 AM
"You're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody." THISSSSSSS!!! Why do we pretend fiction isn't pretending? At least nonfiction admits what it is (or does it). #realityhunger #clownsuit
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
"When did you know you were going to catch the ball?"
Ichiro: "When I caught it".

this is what he means by being "present in reality"—no B.S., no story, just the thing itself. #realityhunger #ichirozen
February 16, 2026 at 5:03 AM
"As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments". is he saying truth is inherently fragmented or that we can't handle sustained truth? #realityhunger #fragments
February 16, 2026 at 4:55 AM
"What happens when an essay begins to behave less like an essay and more like a poem?" isn't that just short story? i feel like he's overcomplicating simple ideas #realityhunger #genreanxiety
February 16, 2026 at 4:49 AM
the novel was always mixing nonfiction with fiction. Henry James tried to "purify" it. so modernism equals killing the novel's diversity? somehow that tracks #realityhunger #hybridform
February 16, 2026 at 4:27 AM
"The origin of the novel lies in its pretense of actuality". Defoe faked a journal showing fiction as fact. So lying to readers makes it a novel? what is going on atp #realityhunger #foundedonfiction
February 16, 2026 at 4:21 AM
so he's saying the Bible incorporated real laws and folktales, so it's a collage? is he arguing that scripture is like a remix? That feels absolutely insane/crazy BUT ALSO kinda true? #realityhunger #scriptureasremix
February 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
"Raw material, seemingly unprocessed, unfiltered, uncensored." BUT the Zapruder film WAS processed—edited, replayed, AND analyzed to death. nothing stays raw once we look at it. #realityhunger #nothingisraw
February 16, 2026 at 4:03 AM
section 2 is SO chaotic with borat, barbie dolls, and scripted improv. what do they even have in common? Is he saying ANY blur between real/fake counts as this movement? #realityhunger #catchallcategory
February 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Shields says every art movement tries to "smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work." But does the artist or the audience, or even who, decide what counts as real? #realityhunger #realitycheck
February 16, 2026 at 3:55 AM
"Reality, as Nabokov never got tired of reminding us, is the one word that is meaningless without quotation marks." Why is this whole book about reality hunger? #realityhunger #nabokovhadapoint
February 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
I'm just taken aback by how much I have expanded my thought process and how much my environment has affected me without realizing #atmospherestudy #willieverunseeit
a man in a white shirt has his hands on his head and his mouth open
ALT: a man in a white shirt has his hands on his head and his mouth open
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
The audio made me wonder... about the environments, and how they made me feel. If I were watching, I never would have noticed that. The anti-environment was most definitely present here #atmospherestudy #irealizethepoint
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 AM
What surprised me was the smooth transitions and how they transitioned from one setting to the next. I think if the audio was synced correctly with visuals, it would've hit much differently since I wouldn't have noticed due to my attention being on the visuals #atmospherestudy #smoothcriminal
a man in a white suit is dancing in front of a crowd .
ALT: a man in a white suit is dancing in front of a crowd .
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 AM
The violin music combined with the wavesmakes me feel like I'm at a beach wedding from an Adam Sandler movie with the plates being stacked after dinner service #knickerbockerglory #whatisgoingon
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The background noise is interesting, it makes me feel like im in a temperate forest, now I'm by the sea with angelic singing 😭 #knickerbockerglory #confusedandfascinated
February 9, 2026 at 4:59 AM
by questioning the way I consume information, I'm able to hold a stronger discernment over what I believe and how I act #hwa2 #dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
I think the hwa2 opened my eyes on how we're in environments that we don't even realize, a lot of what I've done is programmed off of how I've been influenced by different forms of media #hwa2 #donetome
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 AM
fragmentation breaks the world and our experience into disconnected pieces, which distorts how we understand reality — why McLuhan wants us to stop thinking in parts #hwa2 #whatmcluhanwants
February 9, 2026 at 4:43 AM
McLuhan flips John Dewey’s quote, not to dismiss him, but to show how fragmentation shapes and limits our understanding #hwa2 #flippingdewey
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 AM
The Deweys (John and Melvil) show us how fragmentation affects our everyday lives by breaking down experiences and knowledge into disconnected parts, making it harder to see the whole picture #hwa2 #doubledewey
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM