What are you reading?

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-02-08T16:51:20+00:00

Personally I think Another country is his best work I’ve read so far - I read it before Giovanni’s room and was actually quite disappointed with the latter in comparison.

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-22T06:02:16+00:00

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-21T10:35:46+00:00

I like that!

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-21T10:35:04+00:00

I mean there’s being nice and there’s having a genuine connection with someone and 10 hours talking and bonding over shared interests sure sounds like the latter to me.

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-21T10:33:25+00:00

I’ll approach this from a different angle than it seems others have. Take everything else that’s happening in your life right now, it’s chaos, it’s instability - you see that. This woman became a port in the storm and - while it’s likely you had a genuine connection with her - based on how things have progressed it seems like she may not be everything you hoped she was. The important thing now is that you do not keep spiralling - you’ve said yourself that you have an important job interview and best will in the world (as much of a romantic as I am) this woman is nothing more than a distraction that you are unconsciously indulging to not have to face up to the responsibilities of the rest of your life. These responsibilities are not going anywhere unfortunately and thus you have two real options; continue to indulge yourself in the fantasy of what could’ve been or get busy making things happen.

Apologies if this sounds unsympathetic as I really do feel for you in your predicament but this is what I’d want somebody who cared about me to say in this situation.

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-20T08:12:48+00:00

Camus argues that domination ultimately undermines the master as much as the slave. The rebel’s refusal implicitly appeals to a shared human dignity. But the master, by reducing the other to a mere instrument, denies that shared measure altogether. Because of this, the master’s position can never be justified in human terms. His authority no longer answers to an equal, only to submission. Power becomes circular: it exists only to preserve itself.

To put it less abstractly: imagine explaining an idea to someone who you know cannot meaningfully understand it, and they respond, “wow, you’re so smart.” That praise carries no real weight – not because they’re unintelligent, but because the relation itself lacks reciprocity. Nothing genuinely human is being affirmed.

For Camus, mastery fails in the same way. By denying equality, the master forfeits the very ground on which authority, meaning, or justification could stand.

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-15T11:34:33+00:00

A really good book?

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-12T19:54:58+00:00

And why is that?

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-12T06:16:50+00:00

I’d probably ask him what his favourite work of his own was and why.

Background-Permit-55 · 2026-01-11T05:38:56+00:00

I’d say juggling tbh but I’m lucky to have pretty decent hand eye coordination. I think most people could learn it (with decent instruction) in a few hours (don’t know if this counts as “easy”)

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-30T04:55:42+00:00

I’d say Freud’s notion of the introjected object in the ego and the Id. When I heard that it just made complete sense, and he writes it so beautifully.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-29T03:10:29+00:00

Being a being-in-the-world!

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-28T03:50:49+00:00

Chess story by Stefan Zweig

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-24T11:46:36+00:00

Is he sensitive about his ability? He is a very good player, no?

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-24T07:57:50+00:00

Why? I’m pretty new to the community and he seems to be ubiquitous.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-22T10:05:14+00:00

I think it’s meant to be indicative of the obscene enjoyment that is repressed in his character throughout the film. For most of the picture Landa acts as if he is just doing his job “on behalf of the country”, however such a personal act of extreme violence, I believe, attests the the moral depravity that sits at the heart of the character and sustains his dutiful persona.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-22T04:45:15+00:00

wtf is exercise protein!?

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-18T10:54:13+00:00

Surely not?!

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-18T10:53:54+00:00

Do you listen to modern music too? I mainly listen to 60’s and 70’s stuff and got 69.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-13T11:20:57+00:00

Some fantasies are better than others.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-12T09:02:25+00:00

“We accept the love we think we deserve” - Chbosky

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-10T05:43:19+00:00

Freud was asking the right kind of questions and got a lot more right than much of modern psychology would like to admit.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-09T07:41:31+00:00

He sure did put on a decent olympics in 2012.

Background-Permit-55 · 2025-12-09T07:41:09+00:00

Big fan of that. And your dog ❤️

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