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Elliot

@BurrNotice

Writer + editor, South London. Likes: grand narratives, white hot prose, toilet graffiti

 South East London
elliotjosephburr.substack.com/p/literary-paris-is-a-scam?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
Joined June 2020
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when i was in highschool i was very clear with the career advisor that i wanted to lead an empty life of quiet desperation
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..//@sobrightyNov 7
Replying to @4xCaliban
This is an inferior version of the de Maistre quote.
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in which Russell Brand misuses the word corollary
PastelPentagram (@PentyWenty) profile picturePastelPentagram@PentyWentyNov 5
Russell Brand and Noel Fielding on Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2007)
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Sorry my mind is too loud for this to work
𝓵𝓲𝓵𝔂. (@iridescelily) profile picture𝓵𝓲𝓵𝔂.
@iridescelilyNov 5
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@gdelujoNov 3
I believe that what people today call “infatuation” is true romantic love, and that’s exactly what people meant throughout history until, say, the 20th century
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people DK what surplus value means
Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) profile pictureMr Demos of Pnyx@gem_steNov 3
The clearest admittance I've ever read that our economies are built upon and rely upon the extraction of surplus value from workers. In 2026 basic Marxist precepts remain unquestionable.
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@freereefillsNov 1
Zillennial means a 32yo who isn’t where they want to be in life
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we invariably despise each other
❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥ (@tonyhawktruther) profile picture❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥
@tonyhawktrutherOct 31
When you see a guy in public who’s the same type of guy as you and you both seem to recognize it
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Stack that up over a month, I’m gonna kick your butt. Stack that up over a year, you’re toast.
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They may be a fake “nation”, confected by great powers to serve their ends. But there’s no use crying about it now — it’s not like the Treaty of London 1839 can just be undone.
gordie by the sea (@thetransportcr) profile picturegordie by the sea@thetransportcrOct 15
never bring a new book to read at a pub without a backup to read in case the first choice sucks bc like why even mention #them
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Is everyone now going to pretend to have heard of and care about who wins The Caine Prize
The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) profile pictureThe Atlantic
@TheAtlanticOct 11
Exclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, @vauhinivara reports: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

theatlantic.com
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Beci Carver@becimayOct 11
One expression of my belief in my own immortality or capacity to push little eternities into my allotted time is the backbreaking quantity of books I take with me when I go away for a couple of days
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The funny thing about this is that Paris is still heaven on Earth
elly (@icedoll456) profile pictureelly@icedoll456Oct 10
i didnt consciously realize it until now but i feel japan has def replaced france in terms of country and culture people romanticize the most now. ive seen tons of normies like “i wanna go to tokyo so bad” i havent rly seen anybody say “id die to go to paris” for a long time
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sean@DilettanteryPodOct 8
I think about this one frequently
Aleph (@woke8yearold) profile pictureAleph
@woke8yearoldOct 7
I’ve been watching actual combat footage from WW2 and it’s completely arresting. It makes it easy to understand why there has been so much fascination with it. It’s left out of almost all WW2 media because it’s too real
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The silent majority stands with DIGGER
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DIGGER is great
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The insane landscape of modern drone warfare. Including "dragon drones" dropping molten iron (thermite) onto structures and trenches.
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dookie@babadoookieSep 23
When a couple says they swingers you’re like oh ok yall some freaks when a couple says they’re ethically non monogamous you know one of them cries themselves to sleep every night
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teaching denis johnson's car-crash while hitchhiking tomorrow. i will forever be awed by this paragraph. goosebumps every time
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