boy-next-door in the library basement

"I'm through with memory."

All day, it rains inside us—

I watch you so closely love is my favorite invention. A boat of close attentions lying sideways.

"Celebrity comes into English at the beginning of C15 from Latin celebritās meaning 'fame,' or 'the state of being busy or crowded' (there is also the related French célébrité). Two important early meanings recorded by OED are: 'Observance of ritual or special formality on an important occasion; pomp, ceremony' (C15) and 'An act of celebrating something; a rite, a ceremony; a celebration.' Both are now obsolete, but survived as late as C19. It should be noted that both meanings have strong religious connotations, and it is legitimate to ask whether these meanings contributed to our current usage of celebrity as marking a desperate seeking for the sacred in the profane. While there seem no traces of these archaic meanings in current usage, it might be argued that such connotations prompted the initial choice of this word to mark what is a recognizable feature in contemporary life."

"[...] I turned my focus to the world of film, the way a plant turns towards the sun."

Sentences and their words always lead elsewhere than the place we were expecting them. Neither the reader nor above all the author knows, foresees, commands, calculates, anticipates, prepares for the event of revelation. This incalculable is the text’s promise and taste of triumph.

In short, what Bakhtin left to the world, after a lifetime of thinking and writing, was not a shelf full of polished books and essays, but a grab bag of fragments, uncompleted projects, and works that had, in one or another way, been distorted. Scholars, however isolated, eccentric, and unsociable they may be, depend on a public sphere of criticism and argument: the latter tests their ideas, helps them find definitive form, opens them up to wider concerns. Bakhtin had big ideas and no audience: as a result, we have the ruins of a project.

Jesse Armstrong saying the third-to-last episode of Succession is the most shocking of the final season can only mean one thing: