by Anonymous What If the Real Demons Were the Friends We Made Along the Way? In the month since I finished reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Demons and set it on my end table (next to my tasteful yet practical reclining reading chair), the novel’s content and presence has haunted my mind. The cream-coloured ‘Penguin Classics’ paperback … [DO NOT CLICK]
by Anonymous Do it yourself. Championed hard and fast by craftspeople the continents over as the mode—nay, lifestyle—for those who get things done. It is the last heuristic, the rule of all thumbs. It’s the stuff of civilizations. And it applies to everything of course, not just water heaters and alternators. Do it yourself recreation; … [DO NOT CLICK]
As the world moves into an age where the majority of modern culture is shifted by the internet and society moves online to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes a question as to how the internet has changed over time. To me, as a child, the internet felt like an expansive place where everything you’d … [DO NOT CLICK]
by Anonymous Preface This essay is written as an observation, diagnoses, lament and eulogy to Dutch literature by a literature enthusiast who is concerned about the (non-existing) influence that Dutch and Flemish writers have on this world. This is merely my point of view and the light that I shine on this subject will probably … [DO NOT CLICK]
by Anonymous (7:01PM 2/5/2016 listening to Type O Negative’s “Bloody Kisses”) On the day of the 2016 Iowa Cockass, I was literally shitting blood. The day before I was driving back from Chicago after seeing Defeated Sanity. On the drive my staying awake food was half a bag of cheese curds and a bag of … [DO NOT CLICK]
by Anonymous Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s a funny thing to say when you spill your drink, but some people legitimately ask. Fallibility of the question itself aside, I say, that if bad things didn’t happen to good people, they wouldn’t be good people, just people. Let me explain. Only true … [DO NOT CLICK]
by Anonymous A pill that eliminates the need for sleep – I’m not talking about meth. I’m talking about a pill or a treatment that alters your DNA so that the need for sleep is just eliminated. You might feel a little tired, but then you can sit in a recliner and read a book … [DO NOT CLICK]
In order to be able to fully comprehend the nature of post-modernism, one must, first and foremost, understand the cultural tendencies behind its genesis. Appeal to meta, inter- and pantextualism, avid usage of (post-)irony and reminiscence, conceptualisation of space and other structural devices which Post-Modernism is notorious for, though important, still remain optional and far … [DO NOT CLICK]
by Anonymous The Patterson footage was shot October 20th 1967. It features a large furry animal walking upright through Bluff Creek, near Yakima, Washington. The animal looks like Bigfoot. The men who shot the footage insisted it was Bigfoot, never recanting their story. Predictably, the film has been called a fraud. Numerous experts have assessed … [DO NOT CLICK]
Dear Mr. Pynchon, Please allow me to introduce myself. I have read two of your books, The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow. I plan yet to read Mason & Dixon, and I will reserve judgement on that which I have read for two reasons. The first of which being that you surely are … [DO NOT CLICK]