the book is a fugue for the twilight of Europe, a jeremiad for an empire that has outlived its relevance to the world system it built
if the parents in that gymnasium ever saw anything in the legend of Hong Gildong, it is not that their children might study their way to success; it is that they, too, might just be uniquely special
Thank you for contacting the zone of forgetting. A representative will be with you shortly.
Is he writing it for the wrong reasons?
Whatever Walsh says, there is no viable alternative the internet offers to art and politics. Though I suppose it is entertaining to think otherwise.
Obsession is by one turn the way that these characters achieve their meager success, but it is also, by another, the fatal flaw in their efforts to reach the perfection they seek.
A weaving association of human desires, the reading of which moves the mind as living does.
Issues that, despite the great age of the texts we find them in, speak directly to our current moment.
These are not deplorables. They are people navigating challenging circumstances with the tools available to them.
The nature of her celebrity means that the world shapes itself around M.
It is as if he took an old rotting book, hollowed it out, and stuffed his own weird little objects in there.