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It is only in the event of a disaster, the wreck of the 8:15 train, that one is enabled to discover his fellow commuter as a comrade; thus, the favorite scene of novels of good will in the city: the folks who discover each other and help each other when disaster strikes.
-W Percy
Someone has posted a searchable PDF of the entire text of Percy's "Message In the Bottle" (the whole book, not just the titular essay). agchildress.com/files/TheMessa…
A zone crossing has taken place. It is of extraordinary interest to the commuter that he may step out of the New York Central right-of-way and into the yellow house.
Before I spent my days tweeting about mass shootings and Neil deGrasse Tyson, I used to write about Walker Percy and travel and meaning. arischulman.com/files/Ari%20Sc… thenewatlantis.com/publications/g…
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Re: lettuce: has anyone tried adding more blockchain?
I was about to apologize for what a bad joke that was.
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Full 5-star reviews on Amazon are now a great indicator of cheap garbage.
Wow! 36 out of 36 reviews give 5 stars! And all left today!
Hey look, this reviewer has left 10 reviews, all for deep-discount knockoffs, all today! He must know his stuff!
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Extremely tempted to make a bot that tweets Nietzsche aphorisms with clapping-hand emojis
One 👏 has 👏 only 👏 seen 👏 little 👏 of 👏 life 👏 if 👏 one 👏 hasn't 👏 also 👏 seen 👏 the 👏 hand 👏 that 👏 mercifully 👏 kills 💃💃
Anyone 👏 who 👏 despises 👏 himself 👏 will 👏 still 👏 respect 👏 himself 👏 as 👏 a 👏 despiser 😋🔥
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Good morning! The Last Jedi novelization comes out in PB Tuesday. I'll offer some thoughts from the writing process in roughly chronological order. Hopefully it will be of some interest/answer some of the Qs folks had. (For which thank you.) amzn.to/2zrkytY
OK, that prologue. It's *NOT* a vision of a better life for Luke. It's a warning from the Force, which has used a dream to slip through Luke's defenses. In both dream and reality, Luke's life is seemingly tranquil but evil is ascendant everywhere else in the galaxy.
Why start there? I wanted to open with Luke and step back in time; to be in Luke's head in a way that would be harder later, when we're exploring Rey's story and he's a mystery she's trying to solve; and to introduce the idea of the Force as almost a character in its own right.
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

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(There's an alternate "diner" version I can't find anywhere online)
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Good morning NYC! 🗽
Jersey City • Manhattan • Brooklyn

from New York harbor.
My commute today has been scenic to say the least.
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Empathy (narrowly FEELING another's pain) prompts us to care deeply about a dozen Thai kids trapped in a cave...#good. Compassion (love, understanding, & concern in the face of suffering) causes us to care about them AND the tragic flooding of 1000's in Japan...#better (cont.)
Empathy shines a narrow spotlight on the few, and can cause us to overreact and act short-term to relieve pain. You can't empathize with 100's or with a statistical abstraction like massive flooding. You empathize with one story at a time, and you FEEL it personally. (cont.)
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Somos hijos del barro, del Mikasa y de las duchas con agua fría!!!!
Somos del fútbol de antes, sin gominas, celebraciones absurdas ni peinados de última moda! ⤵️⤵️👇🏻Hilo⤵️⤵️
De los tiempos en los que los padres apenas si acudían a ver a sus hijos. De ir apretujados en el coche de un padre porque no había suficientes para ir todo el equipo a los partidos de fuera 🚐⤵️⤵️👇🏻
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