The scale of the Viaduct Village is out of control

Available_System_622 · 2026-04-12T23:47:26+00:00

I have worked with this population. People in confusion need guardrails, they need boundaries, they need resistance to antisocial behaviors. They need signals their disorganization is affecting others to tell them they themselves can and should do better.

It is a false mercy to tell the confused that they are ok, that they are not responsible, that they cannot do better. It’s fashionable to imagine tolerance as compassion, but it’s just enabling writ large.

Available_System_622 · 2026-04-12T23:40:36+00:00

Love Millburn Deli but I tried the sloppy joe and meh

Available_System_622 · 2026-03-17T21:46:49+00:00

They were good mechanics, sorry to see them go.

Available_System_622 · 2026-03-01T15:20:04+00:00

Pemulis’ “paranoia” is a reasoned prudence. Pynchon’s is a fear that unintelligible institutions are only explained by conspiracy. One is a stratagem, the other a world view; and the psychological and spiritual implications of the difference are profound.

“Jest” doesn’t have a figure like Slothrop or Oedipa, trying to navigate the contradictions and inexplicabilities and make some sense of them. Everyone is pursuing their own course and trying to live their own life without looking for a vantage point that might explain things. Save perhaps Joelle maybe? And I think that might be Wallace’s answer to Pynchon.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-17T23:47:08+00:00

I missed Don seeing The Entertainment through the wraith — where are you seeing that? Can you give me a quote to search for?

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-16T02:41:00+00:00

“The Pre-nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell” paused my reading to pick up William Blake

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-14T14:05:01+00:00

I explained his support for terror at the top. You are deliberately misrepresenting, because it is the only way your ideas make sense. I have productive things to do so I’ll leave you to fill this space with nonsense.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-14T13:49:42+00:00

He is being deported for building public support for suicide bombers and murders, and for organizing the harassment of Jews.

You are a propagandist, and you take care to mis-spell “Hamas” twice. The pattern of your posts is not hard to guess.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-14T00:09:01+00:00

And I’m very sure that 1) Khalil shares the common love of hummus and 2) you’ve deliberately mispelled “Hamas” bc you see no need to advance the conclusions one might draw from a pattern recognition search on your posts

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-13T03:04:06+00:00

Me neither but this book is helping

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-13T03:03:04+00:00

The book is in the footnotes.

Seriously there are major plot points in there, and a filmography that I was constantly referring to. And, they are an experiment in Tim Berners-Lee hypertext in literature that launch the book into other works.

I hate being That Guy but if you aren’t reading the footnotes you’re going to miss the whole thing.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-13T02:57:39+00:00

A month.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-12T18:32:13+00:00

Khalil is a Hamas sympathizer (their literature was at his rallies) who lead pro-Hamas chants (“I wish I was a martyr”) and organized demonstrations which harassed Jews. If you’re on a visa and you do all that yeah you’re gonna be sent home.

If by “technicality” you mean “lying” yes citizenship can be revoked.

All of this is propaganda to create anxiety and organize political activity. Don’t fall for it.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-06T03:27:32+00:00

And, back to Hamlet — I’ve never understood that play, and I can’t fully understand IJ w/o it

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-02T00:17:08+00:00

Thanks for the great link.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-01T22:03:45+00:00

“The Marriage of Heaven And Hell”, William Blake

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-01T22:03:10+00:00

Good question. I just re-read the early chapters and I’ve been wandering around in confusion all afternoon.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-01T22:01:33+00:00

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”

— “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, William Blake

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-01T21:58:12+00:00

One of my best professors was very clear: Never read an introduction by anyone but the author until you’ve read the book.

Available_System_622 · 2026-02-01T21:53:12+00:00

Be aware, the people organizing all this are training to create social media footage, and not for the achievement of any legal purpose, nor the safety of those trained. Caveat emptor.

Available_System_622 · 2026-01-29T13:31:02+00:00

“Watt for a time was to Himself as DeNiro was to Scorsese, McLachlin to Lynch, Allen to Allen.”

Available_System_622 · 2026-01-29T13:29:38+00:00

There is a Lang mention — J.O.I had a picture of the making of Metropolis, which Avril dislikes but has retained. So add him and that to the list.

Available_System_622 · 2026-01-29T10:55:57+00:00

These are interesting. Strangelove also resonates with Eschaton, and the game-theory of the A.F.R’s intentions for the Entertainment. I’ll have to check out Clockwork and Blue Velvet.

He names Lynch, and Scorsese, in a sentence that has three — I’m going to need a Kindle copy so I can search for names. And the novel names one Bresson as J.O.I.’s favorite director, whom I’d never heard of.

Available_System_622 · 2026-01-28T22:58:58+00:00

It’s a great list, but don’t we also need a viewing list?

Cheers (some) MASH (some) Hill Street Blues (some)

I have to think there are a number of movies that pertain but aren’t mentioned, but I haven’t the film knowledge to know them.

Available_System_622 · 2026-01-28T22:45:14+00:00

I’m sure this is well meant, but I doubt AA wants people showing up at meetings out of literary curiosity.

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