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the color of pomegranates (1969)

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Enjoy

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Finding out that the Nazis privatized industry at a time in which such a thing was unheard of until decades later with neoliberalism has had my brain on fire. I already knew fascism was capitalist but this is the most capitalist.

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Patreon

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invictus is still a pretty banger poem

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"The Martyr" by Herman Melville

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The natural cycles of myth and their literary correlates (according to Northrop Frye)

Northrop Frye, 'The Archetypes of Literature' (1951)

(jstor link)

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I’m happy everyone’s enjoying the Brecht-Benjamin posting. here’s a photo of them playing chess:

And one of Benjamin’s diary entries recounting a comment Brecht had made about chess:

From ‘Conversations with Brecht’ in Aesthetics and Politics (1977)

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George Grosz (German, 1893–1959) 

Metropolis, 1926

Oil on canvas

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In capital crime cases, Grigson, throughout his career, was typically an expert witness for the prosecution. Under Texas law, for death to be imposed the jury must believe the defendant not only to be guilty of the crime charged, but likely to commit additional violent crimes if not put to death. In almost every case, Grigson testified (often after meeting the defendant for just a few minutes, or not at all) that the defendant was an “incurable” sociopath who was “one hundred per cent certain” to kill again.

In the late 1980s, an investigation conducted by the Dallas attorney general’s office looked into post-conviction outcomes of murder convicts whom Grigson had testified against. Contrary to expectations set by Grigson’s testimony, those who were still in prison were generally nonviolent and cooperative. Of the twelve paroled convicts they were able to speak to, only one had committed a crime after release.

gotta love the way that forensic “science” is utter garbage.

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A child in Texas died from measles. In 2025.

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idk how innate this is but i do think there are people who have the desire to beat their bodies into weapons to aim at their goals and those who think its a bit extreme

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Betye Saar - Celestial Universe, 1988

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the only thing that can defeat my nine tigers style is master lam’s drunken mantis fist. good thing he’s always been a cantankerous old man who’s always hated the idea of taking a disciple. once my goons take care of him the drunken mantis fist will die with him and my nine tigers style will reign supreme!