Krapp's Last Vape

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Just so you know, I have more philosophically and culturally in common with Judaism than with Catholicism. Looking at you, new Trad Cath followers.

On a related topic, I’ve recently been convinced that there is a qualitative difference between straight male melancholy (Pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky) and queer sadness. Part of the difficulty is how few canonized affective models there are of the latter.

Quite obviously I cannot speak with any epistemic or phenomenological authority on the angst of queer bookish womanhood, but I have several brilliant friends who struggle with finding romantic partners and it makes me vicariously very sad.

I cannot prove it, but it seems to me that it is more laudatory for a tweet to achieve popularity on its own merits rather than piggybacking on another through dunking or commentary. And yet if it proves too popular it is most likely either cliché or misunderstood.

I wish to confess that I once believed open-heartedly in the bygone mythic image of academia and university life— full of tweed jackets, perpetual autumnal moods, and late-night colloquys with peers mutually devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. Getting over this has been hard.

Complete fucking moron here. AI logically demonstrates that philosophy begins in wonder.

Beau is Afraid has a structural similarity to Waiting for Godot in that famous quip that it’s a play where nothing happens twice. Beau is Afraid is five acts where the worst possible thing happens five times, concluding with a judgment of death.