concerned with matters of the spirit

Joined April 2017
A new essay on eloquence or the problem of speaking well. I talk about sontag, rosalia, ballet, my friends, beauty, god. A final entry in this year’s series on self & consciousness. open.substack.com/pub/foliei…
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The essence of queer temporality is that of course, one does have more hours in the day than the heterosexually timebound, and one may enjoy a dinner an opening a rave and an afters all on a weekday
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Musical theatre is quite impressive. They sing, dance, and act, sometimes simultaneously
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One must write just enough to be worth inviting to parties, and one must party just enough to have material worthy of writing
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I inherited my martyr complex matrilineally
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Fortunately, my congratulatory anne carson story post text excerpt was far more esoteric and uniquely-sourced, and your Ecstasy of Love was certainly Small and Sad
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Something quite fatphobic about a flock of birds immediately flying away when you walk past. I don’t think all of you had to go, frankly
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I had a dream aretha and patti labelle were covering smerz’ You got time and I got money
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This has all been a scheme orchestrated to distract from tinashe and each second wasted on discourse is another small death (tinashe is, of course, a deathlessness)
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I have grown wiser, calmer, more intentional about energy. Unfortunately I do miss cultivating parasocial relationships from online schizophrenics
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True power comes from total mastery of eye contact. and knowledge of its intricacies
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I am concerned with subjectivity and intersubjectivity and also of course wooden furnitures
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I was sorry to miss my grandmother’s funeral, but I knew there was local art nearby, and I knew I must support it,
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So many opinions on what conditions will irreparably damage one’s life at [arbitrary age], when, if you are kind and curious about the world, and you keep trying, you’re really doing just fine
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We were at the cinema and my friend asked if I wanted popcorn and I, almost like reflex, purely unconsciously, said the phrase ‘I find popcorn juvenile.’ I’ve never thought that before. I don’t even believe it. But my instinct for Having Something To Say overwhelmed even me
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That even in countries that use metric, the phallus continues to be measured in the imperial system—Cock is a colonial disease,
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Something uncomfortably plastic about the writing on shows like Adults, I Love LA, etc—like all the characters know they’re telling a joke
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I wouldn’t say it’s ‘measles’ so much as a tasteful homage to yayoi kusama
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Strange to see the phrase ‘khia asylum’ becoming common parlance among celebrities, when not a single one of them has accomplished a feat like this
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becoming-‘trade,’ and the autophallophilic homosexual male
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