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announcement: i am trying to grow my collection of shitty charts and diagrams, so please @ me if you come across any! all genres/disciplines and eras are welcome, fiction or nonfiction.

tenet is the worst movie i've seen in a long time, maybe since the oscar-winning fish sex film. too long, too edgelord-y, too much kenneth br*n*gh as the stereotypical wife-abuser faux-russian, too many macguffin timecubes, too much deliberate withholding of information to seem deep and cover all the holes in the nonsense time travel plot...and zero reason for me to care about anything that happened

tranxio replied to your post “One of Nabokov’s most distinctive attributes as a...”

One of Nabokov’s most distinctive attributes as a literary critic was his penchant for rendering “strong opinions” on writers and their art. For example, he told Robert Hughes in 1965: “I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called ‘great books.’ That, for instance, Mann’s asinine Death in Venice or Faulkner’s corncobby chronicles can be considered ‘masterpieces,’ or at least what journalists call ‘great books,’ is to me an absurd delusion, as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair.”

my fav thing is slavicists who pretend (or believe!) that they are too cool for dostoevsky: