saddleblasters
4 months ago
The fart counter thing in Kusamakura also stood out to me when I read it. Soseki and detectives feels like something somebody could write a master's thesis about.
hylas
6 months ago
loved this 'When a man in Ancient Greece got on a boat and went to Asia Minor, he wouldn’t mentally place himself on a map, but instead just travelled through physical space, the same way that we might walk from room to room.' I have also been on that pirate-themed ship :))
balckwell
6 months ago
new essay: part three of the OF TWO WORLDS series, PHILOSOPHICAL HONESTY, in which i briefly sum up my adult life in order to explain why i feel the need to bother with such ideas
balckwell
7 months ago
new essay, DON'T LET THE WORLD GET TO YOU, a follow up to last week's essay ESCAPE FROM REALITY in which i either make things more clear or less clear
my favorite part, "Melmoth the wanderer is a man named Melmoth, AND, he does a little bit of wandering." 10/10 no notes