"The world," she’d say to herself, "can’t be bothered to mean anything. The world is only illuminated. That is the great mystery."
Sheila's Light
Since Sheila was a mole, she loved digging underground.
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Nicholas Cannariato
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Writer/Teacher. Work: NYT Mag, NY Times, WaPo, Slate, Atlantic, NPR, etc. Mainly here to listen. Olympic: Simple stories nicholascannariato.substack.com/ Portfolio site: nicholascannariato.com
Learning how to see you, one woodland creature at a time. nicholascannariato.substack.com/p/the-foxs-s...
The Fox's Story
Laughter was coming from the house.
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"The world," she’d say to herself, "can’t be bothered to mean anything. The world is only illuminated. That is the great mystery."
Sheila's Light
Since Sheila was a mole, she loved digging underground.
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The Invite was some real psychoanalytic bumper cars, without many real surprises and a meh ending, but still a success insofar as it makes domestic drama inescapable and thus meaningfully painful.
Learning how to see you, one woodland creature at a time. nicholascannariato.substack.com/p/the-foxs-s...
The Fox's Story
Laughter was coming from the house.
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This very short story is about a miner in a small mining town who retires so he can collect the tears of others in jars. The townspeople help him since he says he has never able to feel and now he must. They help him, as they deceive him, wondering what it means to feel at all.
The Collector
The collector was a coal miner in a small mining town.
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This very short story is about a miner in a small mining town who retires so he can collect the tears of others in jars. The townspeople help him since he says he has never able to feel and now he must. They help him, as they deceive him, wondering what it means to feel at all.
The Collector
The collector was a coal miner in a small mining town.
nicholascannariato.substack.com
I've been a secondary ed reading teacher for over 15 years and every year we've read great books and understood them, but the key was we read them together. Meeting students where they are doesn't mean dumbing it down; it means teaching what makes the writing great, and why they should care.
Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 2w agoLast year, I had to write a self-eval, and I was describing the structure of my Great American Novel course, and I realized that the primary mission of the class had become "make sure a group of people actually read and talk about a handful of long books." And that felt fine! It's not a small goal.
This very short story is about a people who live on a world that breathes. They contend with a sorcerer's chromatic music and a brilliant speaker's infinitude of language, but when an asteroid strikes, they're cast into space, alone, with only their breath to sustain them.
The World Around Them
The people of the breathing world were so wise they knew the futility of all wisdom.
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This very short story is about a people who live on a world that breathes. They contend with a sorcerer's chromatic music and a brilliant speaker's infinitude of language, but when an asteroid strikes, they're cast into space, alone, with only their breath to sustain them.
The World Around Them
The people of the breathing world were so wise they knew the futility of all wisdom.
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Statler and Waldorf should be the mirror aging aesthetes hold up to themselves. The Hamlet mirror to nature itself.
ceej@ceej.online · 6mo agoproduction of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
Yes, it's vulgar to demand the humanities show "value," since said disciplines deal primarily in the interpretation of the world, and not its objectification or commodification. That does indeed make the small minded uncomfortable.
whet moser@whetmoser.com · 3w agomy mom spent most of her career teaching freshman english at a four-year school to first-gen college students and ESL learners and now she does comp at a community college. the answer is: the value of humanities is diffuse and open ended, which makes people uncomfortable
Kid you not, my first thought: "is this from Horsin' Around?"
Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social · 3w ago
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w agoGiving myself a headache in the archives
I am forever a partisan of Picard and TNG, but among some of the tackier late 80s/early 90s design choices of the show is that their glasses and cups all look like beakers or beakers with handles.
"Procrastination is a kind of prayer," and thus I am pious.
Elizabeth Nelson@paranoiacs.bsky.social · last mo.How hard am I procrastinating on deadlines? Hard enough to confirm that Steve Winwood's 'Arc Of The Diver' really is a killer LP, and that Bob Seger recorded an absolutely raging, brilliant version of Lou Reed's 'Busload Of Faith'. Procrastination is a kind of prayer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspn...
Chicago History Museum is doing an ad hoc free admission day tomorrow for Chicago residents in order to give people an air conditioned place to be during the day, which is a lovely move. Do other local museums do the same during extreme temps? I hadn't heard of it before.
I've done my turn with Calvino but reading Cosmicomics for the first time and, yeah, brilliantly funny and wise and sensitive storytelling. Helps you know who you are when it's hard to remember.
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
Trump just created Ticketmaster for the Strait of Hormuz
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.TOLLS NOT ON THE TABLE BUT IRAN IS EXPECTED TO PROPOSE ENVIRONMENTAL, NAVIGATION AND SECURITY FEE, DIPLOMAT SAYS
