#the man without qualities

[stradiivarrii]

It still would've been crazy long but still

[indiestar]

I am neither strikingly handsome nor especially intelligent. My wealth is modest at best, my life perhaps unremarkable. I suspect I am not terribly interesting, and I am undoubtedly far from prolific. To persist in this endeavor—this writing, this sharing—I lean heavily on the kindness of others, the quiet strength of medicine, and the boundless creativity of AI.

And yet, here I am, spilling these words into the void, wondering about the echoes that return.

But enough about me, stranger, sitting on the other side of this screen: tell me, what patchwork of chaos and grace keeps you afloat?

[zelitte]

"autism didn't exist before vaccines" then explain this man

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[dk-thrive]

Because I never stop thinking about it.

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, a great scientist is asked how he manages to come up with so much that is new. His reply: “Because I never stop thinking about it."

— Ada Calhoun, Crush: A Novel (Viking, February 25, 2025)

[dearzauberberg]

Tfw you get past a moment of rough reading. Tfw you can finally untense yourself now that you're sure you don't secretly hate the book, you just didn't like the last chapter or two of it. Tfw you're now certain you would do well to marry your book and perhaps have a few children (terribly un-canon fanfictions)

[peterarkledrawings]

© Peter Arkle 2024 THE BOOK WITHOUT QUALITIES

[prayersforpigeons]

Her friend regarded such an evening as a ripped-out page, alive with all sorts of suggestions and ideas but mummified, like everything torn from its context, full of the tyranny of that eternally fixed stance that accounts for the uncanny fascination of tableaux vivants, as though life had suddenly been given a sleeping pill and was now standing there stiff, full of inner meaning, sharply outlined, and yet, in sum, making absolutely no sense at all.

The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil

[nerosunero]

26 May 2025, Dublin. On my desk. Finished!

[hahahalfwit]

im studying them like little bugs

[crowliphale]

Have you always been that height? Have you always leaned a little when you stand? Have you always smiled a little lopsided when you see me again?

[stradiivarrii]

Diotima from TMWQ is SO Klaasje coded

But also not at all . But like

Do you get what I mean??

Anyone who knows both of them probably understands me. I love you Diotima

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Editing next chapter of carl fic while listening to “Golden” from Kpop demon hunters this is the VIBE

[nechto221b]

[demonir]

Guy who’s been avoiding watching Doctor Who his entire life finally succumbs to peer pressure by no one but himself and turns into his most annoying version possible and makes it everybody else’s problem now for the foreseeable future (exaggerated for dramatic effect)

Had to get these 2 out of my system somehow or I was going to explode

[miodiodavinci]

thank you all so much for the salvador love w a a a a a a a

i bring you a warm up sketch from a few months ago as thanks dsjkfhgkjshdlkfjg