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rose novick@rosenovick· 1d

rose novick@rosenovick· 2d

self-insert character in his semiautobiographical novel young törless 😇

rose novick@rosenovick· 2d

anyway, when a "woman" says "by the time I was six I was sure that I was born a man" that isn't "readily acknowledg[ing] her sexual ambivalence". it is a man expressing the exact opposite of ambivalence

Once out of the South and enjoying considerable fame as the young author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers readily acknowledged her sexual ambivalence. To poet Louis Untermeyer she said in 1940, "By the time I was six I was sure that I was born a man." McCullers often fell in love with women, but such infatuations seldom led to physical relationships.

rose novick@rosenovick· 3d

you can know carson mccullers was a boy because he said so explicitly but you can also know it because he kept writing "girl" characters who dress like boys and use boy names and say things like "wouldn't it be so cool if people could change sex and also if there was War Island"

The world of Berenice was a round world, and the old Frankie would listen to the strong deep singing voice, and she would agree with Berenice. But the old Frankie's world was the best of the three worlds. She agreed with Berenice about the main laws of her creation, but she added many things: an aeroplane and a motorcycle to each person, a world club with certificates and badges, and a better law of gravity. She did not completely agree with Berenice about the war; and sometimes she said she would have one War Island in the world where those who wanted to could go, and fight or donate blood, and she might go for a while as a WAC in the Air Corps. She also changed the seasons, leaving out summer altogether, and adding much snow. She planned it so that people could instantly change back and forth from boys to girls, whichever way they felt like and wanted.
But Berenice would argue with her about this, insisting that the law of human sex was exactly right just as it was and could in no way be improved. And then John Henry West would very likely add his two cents' worth about this time, and think that people ought to be half boy and half girl, and when the old Frankie threatened to take him to the Fair and sell him to the Freak Pavilion, he would only close his eyes and smile.

rose novick@rosenovick· 3d

what's the big deal, all my philosophy papers are coauthored with Clod

Sir Mottled said:
When Big Clod belches breath,
Its name is wind. If only it didn’t rise!
Rising, and the ten thousand apertures rage—
Have you alone never heard their roaring?
Mountain forests’ crags and scarps,
huge trees, hundreds of spans round,
their apertures and hollows
like noses, like mouths, like ears;
like sockets, like bowls, like mortars;
like sinks, like sloughs—
spouters, whizzers,
bawlers, suckers,
shouters, howlers,
wailers, screamers—
the leaders chanting gwraaa,
the followers chanting qrommm—
a cool breeze makes a small harmony;
stormwinds make a big harmony;
the rasping winds cease,
and the manifold apertures empty—
Have you alone never seen this sinuous swaying,
this flittery flutter?

rose novick@rosenovick· 8d

we need a version of this comic for philosophers reading daily nous comments sections

Three-panel crudely drawn comic in MS Paint style on a white background, black hand-drawn panel borders, the figures outlined in orange and green. Panel one: a thin orange stick figure faces a thin green one; the orange says "I've been on gel that makes you orange for three years but I still greyscalemode in public" and then "My spectral decomposition is too close to homogeneous everyone can see it," to which the green replies "huh?" Panel two zooms in on the orange figure, now a slumped angular blob with a stubby arm, saying "I have accepted my fate as an orangecel desaturatoid," "luckchromatic primaroids such as yourself could never understand," and "I simply will never be orange"; the green figure, offscreen at right, manages "what-". Panel three shows only the green figure's head and shoulder at the right edge: "I think whatever website you're getting this jargon from is hurting you.".

rose novick@rosenovick· 20d

rose novick@rosenovick· 23d

any philosophers of action working on this?

lebron james saying "This is my last decision."

rose novick@rosenovick· 24d

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rose novick@rosenovick· 25d

rose novick@rosenovick· 25d

The Dialog
JW: Hi. I’m Jim Woodward. Pleased to meet you. And your name?
M. I am Professor Metafisico, Ph.D.

rose novick@rosenovick· Jul 8

david hume with speech bubble to post below

rose novick@rosenovick· Jul 6

guys let's all go hunt frogs in the cornfield

Frogs in Artificial Light

Along the confield’s concrete rim
they’re scattered, poisonous and poised,

watching the two fakes of the moon:
inert and distinct, diffuse and wavering.

Halogen columns crumble, godlike,
in wind, are replenished by wind.

It’s nearing, the hour when everything
eidetic must be left behind.

Rising, by the splash I learned
just what it was I would come to lack:

not fear, not misplaced prudence, but
the plunge, the swerve, the curving back.

rose novick@rosenovick· Jul 2

zeno's paradox

rose novick@rosenovick· Jul 2

the above extracts are from the private printing (mentioned in the editor's note below), but when it was published publicly it was published in four parts, and the conjunction of the editor's note accompanying part II and the opening text of part II is very funny