tangential thought sparked by linked thread want vs need is a false dichotomyhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1187056324988661760?s=19 …
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Replying to @selentelechia
I argue this a lot X satisfies / enables Y gruel enables living pork chop enables better living sushi enables best living Any of us COULD survive on 1,000 cal/day of gruel...and even that's not required. Death is an option.
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Replying to @MorlockP
paraphrased quote from a book in which the main character is sent to an asylum as a child "people say you have to live in the world. you don't. you can run away. you can become a hermit. you can live in a place like this...and you can also die."
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Replying to @ded_ruckus @MorlockP
a lovely surrealist novel called Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin fair warning I loved it in high school and I was a bit pretentious so the book might be too should reread it tbh
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Replying to @selentelechia @ded_ruckus
fwiw, I and
@NoLongerBennett (who you met over the weekend) are both big Helprin fans1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
o: nice! I'm actually very excited about this I haven't met a lot of people who've read his books I loved them so much
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last year I got @TRULY_RELAXED excited bc I was a fan of Night Lands and told him about stuff in that universe he didn't already know
sadly, I have no secret Helprin books for you
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