I will say this: if you use the toys of rent-seeking billionaires to do your writing for you, I promise I will never care about a single thing you write or think, ever

Yeah, it seems like the Portland REI had been offering monthly wfa courses and they all seemed to fill

Watch out, you'll conjure megamuppetopolis into existence

The Great Marzipanic of 2024

He got attacked by a dog

but can we turn that into a Greimas square?

mor-ibund, more better I always say!

Benjamin Button?

Big, Freaky Friday, arguably the 6th Sense

"Die Dinge verketten sich!"

(which is actually a Conrad Ferdinand Meyer line, but seems applicable to Stifter)

Got into it a bit for the diss, but definitely something I need/want to engage with more seriously as I revise the project.

The argument I was trying to make tho was that this transition effects the mnemonic function of walking through the city and that we can draw a parallel between the changes in the built environment and the changes in the structure of the psyche wrt to memory, time, and consciousness

aha! very cool! I was interested in the transition from cobblestone to asphalt in pavement in Paris which had strong political grounds (rebellions can't create barricades with asphalt like they can with cobblestones). This book was helpful to me on the topic

tricolon crowd rise up, clap, and sing

also curious what book. went on a bit of a deep dive into the history of road pavement in Paris for my dissertation

love this for you