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Another stunner by HK, most famous on SN (perhaps) for this gem.
Every so often you run into somebody who says the stuff you're thinking or, better, haven't quite got around to thinking, but it hits you like it was yours, like you're coming home to it. This is one such, for me.
If you're wondering where the joy went in life, and how you might little by little have got sideways in the pursuit of it, then you might dig the article.
Thanks for this. I wanna know, are you a paying subscriber?
I think it’s admirable that he has the intellectual courage to follow his heart and go with the flow, since his writings are expected to pay the bills. I can understand the tension of a hunter’s mentality - of wanting to focus on something that others might find interesting so that time might be spent more productively
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Not yet. I don't pay for any Substack (I think the pricing model is absurd) but I'm very close to just thinking of it as charitable donation.
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How can David Byrne come up with lyrics like these? I thought. It is so good, but it must have seemed like such a silly little thing when it first occurred to him: a bar named Heaven where the party, when it is over, “will start again / Will not be any different, will be exactly the same.”
Way, way back in college, my friends and I were huge Talking Heads fans. We listened to heaven over and over again. At first we thought of it as funny, bordering on dumb. We grew to think of it as genius, particularly when the marijuana was flowing freely. I still listen to that album (Fear Of Music) a few times a year
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Great, thanks for sharing that
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The writing is like writing in a book, according to the title "Funny Stories About Curiosity", everyone definitely wants to know, whatever it is, because curiosity always makes us curious, likewise, curiosity really wants to know.
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