Paul Franz
@plfrnz
"what is the impact of your research" vs "what is the impulse of your research"
In movement studies, there is a dichotomy between impact and impulse. Impact is movement motivated by hitting a mark and stopping at the target. The quality is sharp and strong and looks like whatever limb or other body part that is moving is making an impact. Impulse is…
Ever felt lost in a masterpiece? T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is notoriously difficult—so we're exploring it together. Tomorrow, join critic @plfrnz for a 5-part guided journey through this monumental poem. Begin the exploration: interintellect.com/salons/the-bur…
TOMORROW--7pm EST--online part 1 of an @interintellect_ reading group on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Given its first decisive form in Lausanne, Switzerland, where the poet had gone to seek psychiatric treatment for exhaustion amid the breakdown of his marriage ("By the waters…
There I saw one I knew, and called him, crying: Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae. That corpse you planted last year in your garden: Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? Oh, keep the dog far hence,…
It's unequivocally peak human experience and the framing of it as an onerous burden is a conspiracy against humanity that could only succeed in a world in which florid narcissism had already become endemic. To miss out on it is to be absolutely diminished in a way that nothing…
You know, at the end of the day it is exactly what it sounds like. There's a little person in your house with high needs who really, really loves you and you are responsible for her being okay 24/7. Is that a delight or a horror? You tell me
Today for @compactmag_ I wrote about #MichaelClune's PAN. A novel of pagan intoxication, offering the most interesting thinking being done today about human meaning and the arts. compactmag.com/article/a-ques…
'A small but powerful literary sub-genre is the novel of pagan intoxication breaking forth in a modern, secular milieu.' @valerie_reads on Michael Clune's Pan: compactmag.com/article/a-ques…