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Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu
isn't it a little bit disingenuous to try and rate this? i can write all i want, on how it starts and finishes on well-tread avenues realized such that it still reads as new despite its age...
25 mar 2025
The Utopia of Rules
David Graeber
it hurts to have read at the time i did, knowing that examples of 'reducing bureaucracy' are either further additions in organizational patterns or maximized...
Dallas Buyers Club
dir. by Jean-Marc Vallée
there are countless people who would do the same as the caricature this movie crafts of Ron Woodroof—move exactly the same as you ever have, if not even more outlandishly and brash...
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9 apr '25

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🧫 march postcard
even if i (again) only wrote one review this past month—and i won't come with pretense that it was all too valuable in nearly the same ways as others—at the very least, i've almost finished...
1 apr 2025
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Stung with Love
Sappho
there's beautiful flourishes sometimes; poetry is not something to skim but it feels like so little is here that i must—circling back, reimagining, recontextualizing, and trying to make it all fit together...
10 jan 2025
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