Ave Maria
you are not immune to propaganda
my academic goal in life is to someday get my phd, establish myself as a scholar, and then use that exclusively to fuck around, and nobody will be able to say anything because i’m a good scholar and i make good points. like yeah maybe i spend the entirety of a 30 page article translating “catharsis” as “big mood” but there’s nothing anybody can do because i am, as the kids say, valid
tumblr is like wading through everyone else’s garbage until you find something good and go “ah. this is good” and take it and display it in your own garbage pile
Roses in the Hoshede`s Garden at Montregon, 1876, Claude Monet
https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/roses-in-the-hoshede-s-garden-at-montregon
Staircase in Capri, John Singer Sargent
https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/staircase-in-capri-1878
“In a way, you are poetry material: You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
“The simulacrum is not a degraded copy. It harbors a positive power which denies the original and the copy, the model and the reproduction.”
— Gilles Deleuze, The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy
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