Pensive lecturer: “Sorry about all the violent examples. I just come from a country where the policeman /does/ punch the boy all the time.”
Overheard in lecture on syntax
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Wayward Lines: Setting a Soundtrack to Saidiya Hartman
With Hartman on the page and Noname in the ears, a Nass writer examines the musical tradition of documenting Black struggle.
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Twenty Years On
“I was a swimmer in the night. The moon on my face, I dove off rocks and cliffs. I swim in my dreams and they sound like the breaths of fish past my face.”
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A Sprawling Smallness
“She wanted to relive the memories, the ephemeral emotions of happiness she felt when she was younger – unmolded. She did not account for the fact that she was a different person hoping to feel the sentiments of years ago.”
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Prufrock’s Letters
Mente mia, che presaga de’ tuoi damni, Al tempo lieto già pensosa e trista, Sí ‘ntentamente ne l’amata vista Requie cercavi de’ futuri afanni 1. Let us go now, til it be that all you and I can see is made the slightest bit unstable; along these fine rain-slickened streets run along these sticky,…
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Nass Recommends: 100% Twilight Princess Speedrun (with Commentary) by YouTuber bewildebeast.
In cheerful defense of shortcuts.
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Loosening the Mother Tongue
“When I learned about the darker history of Zionism, I needed to reverse so much of what I thought to be true while undoing my deepest personal and communal language. Like leaving a cult, my whole world was turned upside down as I tried to gather the pieces of what was once a coherent story.”
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A dream of mending
Our skies sink further into dust and while we wait for cloud-made seams, the earth tears limb from limb, and trusts that we will mend her — so it seems. As fires rage through forests deep, we find ourselves in stubborn dreams in obstinate, unyielding sleep, awaiting savior to come, to beam like…
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Sounding Off: John Bischoff’s Music is Just Noise
A writer searches for meaning in John Bischoff and James Fei’s recent sound performance.
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Failing With Flying Colors
“While an expert knows what is coming next, a beginner tangoes, babbles and belays into the unknown, giddy and relishing in the awkwardness and delight of the unfamiliar. The experience of trying something new and risking failure is both titillating and terrifying. It’s a lot like getting lost.”
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The Definitive List of Who (or What [or Even Where]) is Mother
Chloë Sevigny Liza Minelli Parker Posey Email Charles Grodin My actual mom’s instagram Red shoes Pirating movies Saugerties, NY Arby’s Laura Palmer Tim Heidecker This one shirt I have Ampersands The number 28 Apple music (you heard me) Philip Roth CeraVe facial cleanser A ref at a lacrosse game I played in who looked exactly…
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Letter from the Editors
Dear all, Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly. As the Nass celebrates its first year of full financial and editorial independence, we welcome…