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I get my news from the only reliable source, cryptic symbolism in my dreams

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Ling Ma’s début novel, “Severance,” is set not in the near-future typical of dystopian fantasies but in a reimagined version of the recent past—specifically, autumn, 2011, around the time of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Ling Ma flouts tropes of dystopian fiction, conjuring an experience of the apocalypse that brings into consideration capitalism and immigration, and captures the bleak, fatalistic mood of 2018. 

Read the full review of “Severance” here. 

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Blagaj, Bosnia (by Alen Robovic)

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Salvador Dali’s Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World’s Fair

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kiki

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i remembered my login info in a dream and i may or may not be adding this godforsaken website back to the sprawling collection of pocket mirrors that is my social media persona what is UP

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I don’t want eventual, I want soon. It’s 5 a.m. It’s noon. It’s dusk falling to dark. I listen to music. I eat up a few wild poems while time creeps along as though it’s got all day. This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass, the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on the shore where a moment ago there were two. Softly my right hand fondles my left hand as though it were you.

Mary Oliver, Crazy Little Love Song (from Blue Horses)

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thesis: the “song playing from another room” phenomenon appeals threefold to the millenial experience of nostalgia, isolation, and the sensation of eavesdropping on the lives of others via social media and hyper-consumption of culture actively building upon itself at a rapid pace

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Posy ring with pictogram inscription, ‘Two hands, one heart, Till death us part.’ Made in England in the 17th century (source).

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a man apologizing: hey im sorry you have feelings :(

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Holy Grail Tapestry: The Arming and Departure of the Knights Morris & Co. 1890s 

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