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cloud again

I wish I could make people fill out a short questionaire about why they wanne follow us. Like how did you get here? Do I know you? What are you expecting of this blog? Are you a mutual's sideblog? Are you Cloud again? You know, the usual things you ask yourself.

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Just some Korean literature 🇰🇷✌🏻

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and the kicker of it all is james baldwin is a queer man and if i told these type of ppl that first they’d be interested and value him more, but i don’t want to do that, u arent deserving of some kind of treat to make u value his work, u should be able to read things written by people you cannot relate to at all, his work is majority defined by his blackness, i dont want to erase or water that fact down just so white queers on this website wont treat him and his work like a joke, someone shouldn’t have to be white or queer for you to care, this white centric homo nationalism behavior has got to go

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I love hard books. I love a book where I have to look up a new word or person or place or theory every other page.

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Paperbacks should be $1 and hardcovers should be $2

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Hey peeps.

I fucking love nonfiction books.

I love books written by people who are very passionate about the topics, I love nonfiction books that are written like poetry, I love books that have citations at the end of every chapter, I love books that are both academic and deeply personal, and I love books that physically hurt me to read because they're so close to home.

I just. Love nonfiction books. I think everyone should read more nonfiction. Shit is great.

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All mentions of love and death in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597), colour-coded, in order of occurrence.

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hi all my followers and everyone else seeing this I LOVE YOU

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Life is just a series of obstacles preventing you from reading a book.

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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”

— W.G. Sebald, Vertigo (via exhaled-spirals)

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So, the thing about Don Quixote.

The thing about Don Quixote is that he tilts at windmills - tilts in the archaic sense of ‘charge at with a lance,’ because it’s the story of a guy who read so much chivalric romance that he lost his mind and started larping as a knight-errant. He was, if you’ll pardon the phrasing, chivalrybrained.

The thing about Don Quixote is, sometimes people take it as this story of whimsical and bravely misguided individualism or ‘being yourself’ or whatever, and they’re wrong. If it took place in the modern day, Don Quixote would absolutely be the story of a trust fund kid who blew his inheritance being a gacha whale until his internet got cut off so now he wanders around insisting that people refer to him as ‘Gudako.’

But the real thing about Don Quixote is that it was published in the early 1600s, and the thing about the 1600s is that Europe was one big tire fire. This is because 1600s Europe was still organized around feudalism (or ‘vassalage and manorialism’ if ya nasty), which assumed that land (and the peasants attached to it) were the only source of wealth. And that had worked just fine (well, ‘just fine,’ it was still feudalism) for a long time, because Europe had been a relative backwater with little in the way of urbanization or large-scale trade.

That was no longer true for Europe in the 1600s. The combination of urban development, technological advances, and brutal Spanish colonialism meant that land was no longer the sole source of wealth. Sudden there was a new class of business-savvy, investment-minded upwardly-mobile commoners, and another new class of downwardly-mobile gentry who simply couldn’t compete in this new fast-paced economy. Cervantes saw this process with his own eyes.

One of the symbols of this new age was the windmill, a complicated piece of engineering that was expensive to build but would then produce profits indefinitely - in other words, a windmill was capital.

The thing about Don Quixote is, when he tilts at windmills, he has correctly identified his nemesis.

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writing my to-do list for tomorrow and realised i was simply so excited to go to the library i added it twice

live laugh love (use your local) library

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"It's okay if you don't want to read the classics" okay but you should try. Books hit different when you're not being forced to read them.

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ok good night. I hope everyone dreams of libraries or whatever you prefer :)

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“Oh Rascal Children of Gaza,” by Palestinian poet, Khaled Juma, 2014