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Tommy on Purpose

@ReadPurpose

📚 reader 🧠 intellectually restless ✨ urge and urge and urge / always the procreant urge of the world

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Joined September 2026
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A good time as any to revive this fun little untitled poem written by the generally polite and zen-like Leonard Cohen to the macho-posturing novelist Norman Mailer.
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@PAHoyeckNov 7
Today is the ten-year anniversary of Leonard Cohen's death. What a sad loss that was. I remember hearing the news like it was just yesterday. Here's a picture from when I visited his grave on my way back from class a couple of years ago.
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Replying to @getpaidwrite
This has all the tone of Hemingway in Woody Allen’s “Midnight In Paris” (a fantastic movie).
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Replying to @AnnaDkep
No shortcuts
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Replying to @DeedlesTomes
I'm sorry, what?! Had to look up what that's worth. Also, this book has one of my favorite lines in literature. baumanrarebooks.com/rare-boo…
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Replying to @biigrem
While there's truth in what you said, I think about these lines often in response:
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Replying to @runicstave
There's only one correct response to this:
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Replying to @KlaeHutchinson
Was just thinking about this the other day (this is Kierkegaard)
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Replying to @o_07am
Learned that lesson from this film youtube.com/watch?v=Af-Id_fu…
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Replying to @ecmegato
While we're on the topic, it reminds me of this beautiful opening by Fulton Sheen in "Life of Christ"
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Replying to @aelfred_D
Yes and then immediately after all the internet will turn to me in unison and be like
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Replying to @Gentleman_Ways
The carrying the fire visual is powerful. It also shows up in McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men”
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Replying to @Lovandfear
Beautiful perspective. In the same vein as The Road Less Traveled by M Scott Peck. Life changing book, IMO.
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A masterpiece: J.R. by William Gaddis
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Replying to @Kierkegaarddd
Fear and Trembling. The gems fly off every page:
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Absolutely haunted by the beauty of the last page in “No Country for Old Men” as Sheriff Ed Bell recounts a dream he had of his late father carrying fire through the darkness.
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Replying to @keoveey
This gif comes very close tbh
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Replying to @mattallenwrites
Have you read Suttree? I still laugh about this line years later.
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