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October 10, 2024

Nass Recommends

Nass contributors recommending your next books, albums, and meals at Whitman.

by Aaryan Jagtap, Aliya Kraybill, Amelia Carneiro Zhu, Clara Docherty, Danny Flaherty, Lucia Brown, Lucy McWeeney, Lucy Peck, Ryan Choe, Teo Grosu, Vivian Clayton, Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

We need to arrête all of this liquid: bridges lawns psets towels gmail caffeine with the face of a dog barking in the north courtyard alongside teeth digging into flesh like that subtle ascent of adjectives … Read More

by Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

After zooming out

After zooming out this afternoon that held focused possibilities like a hand reaching into the backlit arteries of a bokeh I filtered my reflections through your shutter and tore off Fuji film rolls from your skin still … Read More

by Wendy Wang on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

MetaStasis

“The motto of metastasis is ‘saving humanity from humanity.’ He claims that metastasis is a necessary process, ‘a way for individuals to shed their old selves and evolve into something greater.’”

by Ayse Basak Ersoy on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

A Jaanipäev Night’s Dream

“Simeon stuffs a cool mint Zyn under his top lip. Is he lost? I ask him what his favorite movie is. Anything Woody Allen.”

by Nell Marcus on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

On Being Selfish

A Nass writer tries their hardest to beat or maybe just to live with Peter Singer’s selfishness argument.

by Ollie Braden on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

Letter from the Editor

I’m often reminded of the Nass EIC under whose honeyed and analgesic administration I worked as a staff writer my freshman year. This guy who studied comp lit and sat in the leather armchair that the Nass houses in the … Read More

by Charlie Nuermberger on October 10, 2024October 12, 2024

Verbatim

Overheard in Bloomberg

Mandible-ist: I’d put my appendix under my pillow to get my wisdom teeth back.

Materialist: I’d put mine under my pillow for a Birkin.

Overheard in Murray Dodge

Neurotic NYT follower: Let’s check on Eric Adams.

Has a senior thesis to write: Bro. Do your homework.

Overheard in Laughlin

Fifth-wave feminist: If only every man was as supportive as this Amazon customer service guy. He’s like a dog to have in the room!

Overheard in Dod Hall

Accidentally seductive: I was imagining a little brother relationship.

Observant onlooker: Well, did you see that way that ‘little brother’ was dancing with you?

Overheard in Cap

Pulls no punches: She had horrible B.O. She STANK. She probably cuts up a lemon and rubs it all over her armpits.

Overheard by Firestone

Denim-clad iconoclast: I already know her. I don’t define people by their DFMOs.

Overheard in female dorm

Low-brow: What really gets her riled up?

High-brow: Beautiful, beautiful men exhibiting immaturity. And intimate colonization.

Overheard in Trustee Reading Room

Comp Lit HAG: I was about to get pissed that a couple was all lovey dovey before I looked up and saw it was 2 guys.

Overheard in line at the gym

Math major: Can I get a different basketball? This one is too oval-shaped.

Overheard at Campus Club

Avid surfer, interning for hedge fund: There's an inverse relationship between time surfing and caring about philosophy.

Overheard in the dead silent rotunda

Obnoxiously loud blonde man: Yeah physics isn't really that hard, what's your major, I'm ECE.

Nervous bystander: I think I should get back to my work now.

Overheard in Terrace upstairs bathroom

Sick psycho: It’s just ontologically evil…I hate Joni Mitchell!