Mary Townsend
@chezaristote
Plato and Aristotle are both right. Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. John's University, Queens, NY; book, The Woman Question in Plato's Republic, 2017
If a church has a side door, I may have gone around the back just to see if I could get in--wrote about solitary church going for the @nytimes: nytimes.com/2024/12/28/opi…
on hold with the new electric company and it keeps playing the same 8 bars of a beethoven symphony, just long enough to be familiar but not fully recognizable. these guys are good
sitting outside in the shade and thinking you know it's a little warm, turns out it's one hundred degrees
can we simultaneously have the novel about the ghostwriter trying to interview him rn
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
'the riotous admixture of different hues was a marvel, a feast for the eye, a kaleidoscope of green, orange, violet, blue, like the full palette of a manic colorist!'
indeterminate
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
Featuring @plfrnz on a collection of poetry by Vijay Seshadri, @chezaristote on moving, and much more. Read now!
moving status, a suitcase full of icons like there's a revolution to flee
this is how everyone reads rousseau, no ?
I will never tire of reading about the insane reactions of eighteenth century French people reading Rousseau for the first time
uninterrupted wall of vice billboards, or as you could say, the feverish city in republic 2, unedited
Driving to Grand Rapids this month, I was struck how the entire corridor from Chicago up through Holland is an uninterrupted wall of vice billboards. Pot, booze, trial lawyers, fireworks, casinos, erotic shops, show girls. Solid wave of it, for your bored preteens to stare at.