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Sep 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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odd book patrol is active once again
found a whole box of books from the 70s that someone apparently really into faith healing or something must have collected (theres a bunch more) may or may not obtain
as usual the 70s / early 80s american christian book cover aesthetic is just unstoppable

(also as usual weird place / weird lighting)
its just so aesthetic. honestly love that this is real
yeah tbh i started hitting the 1800s - 1900s christian stuff pretty hard at the start of the year. hit a few pockets and kind of got stuck but im kind of working my way to the pentecostal stuff... eventually. will probably pick up all these to prep the library (each a dollar)
speaking of the above quest also just found this. had a lot going on but have been meaning to look into a strange detail i heard - that the met museum gave the plate / fragment involved here to the LDS church later on, which seems odd from a museum general practices standpoint
i havent checked that out yet tho. if anyone in that world looks into it lmk.

also this looks cool
i read some of them. tbh im only slightly in control of the directions my studies go along with the art im making, it kind of goes in small jumps from related topic to related topic, so at this point i just have / accumulate kind of a library. that makes it way easier.
so ill take a “step over” into a related topic and get down like a few books or a ton of info about it and then float around and hit something else. things id recommend... yeah let me think about it. im away from The Shelves (tm) rn.

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Nov 11
today is st.martin's day, also known as martinmas. the story of st. martin is that he had a coat, and cut part of it off to help another man keep warm

a lot of waldorf (anthroposophy) stuff is about catholic saints. on martinmas, they do a lantern walk. aesthetically, its cool: Image
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the kids line up with lanterns they made and walk out into the darkness in a line. it has an obvious symbolic component: being the light in the darkness, going into the dark part of the year - st. martin's act, and others like it, that we can do, as illuminating a dark world: Image
its hard to find good pictures of it, probably because it has a reverent vibe, and its not really a "take out your phone" environment... plus its dark. but seeing the kids walk out all together with these paper lights is very cool. its become a "start of winter" thing for us. Image
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Nov 9
after elections, much is made about how the educated vote vs the uneducated. ive benefited from education and am generally a book nerd, but there are dimensions to the educated vs uneducated dichotomy that dont fit into intelligent vs unintelligent. one is: cause and effect

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when you receive education, you are not “a cause”: you are “an effect”. you are receiving. you are there to be the effect of the educational institution. some people that are well educated have been in this state for years - this receptive state has been the focus of their life.
because education “is good”, some people never snap out of this, and never become “a cause”. they just stay receptive - they stay “the effect” forever, even after leaving. contrast this with someone uneducated - its possible they’ve been “pure cause” for almost their entire life
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Nov 8
appalachia is a crazy place. “first and last frontier”. millions of people, but only one state is fully in it (west virginia) so it flys under the radar as a region - unlike the pacific northwest, the midwest, the south, which you can associate with many full states.
appalachia took the brunt of having no environmental regulations at the time. they basically blew off the tops of mountains to strip them and things like that. in my opinion you can kind of code the increasing environmentalist vibe as you scan america east to west, starting here.
the mountains themselves also retained a lot of “original” culture, as an isolating or shielding force. horace kephart was something like a mega-librarian who went to live up in the mountains around 1900 and happened to notice how much language they retained even back to chaucer: Image
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Nov 5
king of the hill, soon to be rebooted, has a voting episode. it ends with a voting PSA, taking the typical angle of: "what's important is that YOU vote" - implied: "that's more important than who you vote for".

its worth asking: did anyone ever actually feel this way?

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public voting PSAs take this angle for obvious reasons - entering the world of "popular civics" or "the civic religion" at this time had this notice on the door

but was it real? were there really a number of people so "lawfully neutral" that they actually thought this was real? Image
it seems significant that (paging derrida) the narrative of the episode itself is the exact opposite of this message. hank takes luanne to a political event specifically to get her to vote for the "right candidate". someone has to show her. its not about her "just voting" at all Image
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Oct 29
'the nightmare before christmas' was released 31 years ago today.

a strange film: after three decades, its still a feature of the cultural landscape (year round), you see its imagery often - it clearly has a special relationship to us.

this year, i tried to figure out why

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some people seem to instinctually take on this movie as part of their personality. i remember going to a girl's room once and she had a nightmare before christmas blanket. "yeah, that makes sense". people wear shirts of it, bumper stickers - all year, not just at either holiday. Image
this is noteworthy because it's a holiday film that transcends the holidays. this is usually the opposite of what holiday movies do. they're usually especially confined to their seasonal domain. someone wouldn't really wear christmas movie gear in spring, as a general rule. Image
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Oct 26
one time i worked at a front desk in new york. we got what i call “jewish missionaries”: orthodox jews who want to get non-orthodox jews to be orthodox, or at least be more jewish.

so, they walk in the front door and ask, “is anyone that works here jewish?”.

“uh… probably“

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i mean, this is an arts building in new york.

so they (two guys) ask, “alright, can you check?”

…can i check… … uh… well surprisingly i do not have a list of jews here. you might imagine a variety of people would be kind of sensitive about that.

“uh… no. i cant check”

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they say, “well, who do you think is jewish? you can see their names. just call them.”

so now im sitting here at this huge marble desk staring at this tiny phone trying to figure out how to explain that i cannot, at my workplace, just call people i suspect to be jewish.

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