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Run That Back #2
Still alive, still linkblogging, still avoiding the attentions of a disapproving god! Patricia Lockwood’s essay on David Foster Wallace, The Pale King and contemporary worries about what attention is and how we use it is worthy of your time. The conclusion, where she articulates the worry of becoming what(/who?) we read, seems to me to…
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Hypnotised Chickens
We’ve been on COVID shutdown since my partner tested positive on Saturday, which is my excuse for watching Werner Herzog’s Stroszek (1977) two nights in a row. The second time around I watched it with Tom Scharpling and AP Mike’s commentary… …which is about as good a substitute for company as you could hope for.…