Boy 1: Who is that blond girl in Cottage in your profile picture? She was in my Dostoevsky seminar.
Boy 2: She’s one of my best friends.
Boy 1: I feel like club sailing has some of the most diverse affiliations.
Overheard by elevator
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I’m Judging You: Gogol’s Defense of Art Critique
“Gogol advocated that we do not need to reject value-judgements, but rather understand all art as part of a grander movement; great art is the product of labor and reflection, vision and passion, building off the works that precede it.”
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What We Lose to Lithium
How a lithium mine in Nevada is compromising Indigenous autonomy, and the danger of letting it go on.
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Dead Beats: Full Design
This week, the Nass learns from Patti Smith, mulls over pop stardom, and weighs the costs of “clean” energy.
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Lessons on Greatness: Reflections On “A Conversation With Patti Smith”
“For Smith, poet and painter William Blake exemplified this approach to life. She remarked: ‘Despite the fact he had no proof from the world he was worth anything—he would have gotten 4 likes [on Instagram]—he did his work.’”
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Princewatch: The “Prince” Once Again Confirms That We Are All Losers
A triumph of data analysis or a sick project of perversion?
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Hey, Big Vape! Make These Flavors Next
New Vape Flavors Vagina Ice Sweaty Ballsack Gelato Razzmatazz Orgy Rush Strawberry Strap-on Delight American Spirit Blue Ice Milk Tyra Banks Better Than Sex Hard Boiled Egg Ice Carbonara Lemonade Black Mold Blue Cheese Smoke Chromium Alloy Poop Charisma Uniqueness Nerve Talent Lost Cherry by Tom Ford Lime Pussy Juice Chips Candy Eric Cartman Kush…
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THE DISHES ARE NEVER DONE BUT GOOD LUCK
“I might survive, and what if I do? What if I swim through the waters and eat and hide from those raiders? And, god, what if I have to drink my own urine?”
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It Looks Like Paris, If You Squint
“She told me she was a writer, and when I left she gave me three books in French, on Proust, Vienna, and magic. It was a sweet thing to do, because our conversations had been mostly in English, and we tried French together like friends failing to be lovers.”
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