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“First of all, I love my mother, so jot that down.” —Paul Atreides, Dune
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Previously in this series: “I don’t think that trying to ‘pass’ as Josh Lyman is a legible goal — I’d like to complicate the idea of what it means to t…
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this is not real
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I submit for general approval the following proposal: Let us have second Halloween. AS it is generally understood among right-thinking people that the …
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It’s been a while since I saw a movie trailer that so perfectly adhered to the traditional beats of “movie trailerness,” a genre all its own, where mov…
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I think suffering has, on balance, made me a worse person. I mean “worse” both in regards to character, as I find myself more frequently irritable, mor…
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Kind stranger! I must thank you for your interest in my welfare this bitter evening. Your speech has been courteous, your manner frank and true, and yo…
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Know, however, that in this world three orders are established. These are laboratores, oratores, bellatores. Laboratores are those that labour for our …
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The Hotel Dull, Food Indifferent project is a weekly fiction series that, for legal purposes, charts various uncomfortable meals hosted by the nameless…
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You need the Moonstruck diet. You are really timid of life, an overgrown boy. You hide these qualities behind a veil of dignity but me, I see everythin…
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Previously: The Boxcar Children, parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII. “I’m certainly not going to help them,” Violet said. “I don’t want to be related…
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