A thread about the extraordinary first sentence of @tazmuir's Gideon the Ninth, and, in particular, how much work the phrase "dirty magazines" is doing.

1/18 The book begins: "In the myriadic year of our Lord--the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly prince of Death!--Gideon Nav packed up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth."

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I'm a big fan of @thisamerlife, but the recent segment on Free Will, introduced with an apology for being sophomoric, is, well... sophomoric.

1/ I think the big problem is that they decided to just talk to physicists.

I love physicists (Dad's one) but they are not philosophers.

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i am never surprised by the horrible shit men will do to stave off the terror of feeling dependent, inadequate, dominated, out of power ... ... by the fever dream of entitlement, the desperate lies we tell ourselves, the starvation of human emotion that results when every ...