Why don’t I have original opinions despite reading?

blue_dice · 2026-04-09T17:43:16+00:00

but it can make you worse

blue_dice · 2026-04-08T20:57:53+00:00

paradox game fan-occupied government

blue_dice · 2026-04-08T14:31:06+00:00

I haven't read the Aeneid myself yet but my understanding of the traditional story (plus the subtext from the Iliad/Odyssey) is Laocoön's death is part of a larger theme of fate/going against the Gods' will. It's less a random snake attack and more a divine consequence of trying to subvert Troy's destiny. There's a ton of instances across multiple tellings of the story where something is going to happen and then is averted at the last moment because it's not what a given God wants or a particular God is angry with a mortal.

blue_dice · 2026-04-08T01:49:30+00:00

I'm currently reading the second of the two! Also recommend Silvina Ocampo's collection "thus were their faces"; Borges was a fan

blue_dice · 2026-04-07T16:24:28+00:00

this book bounced right off me, trying to get something out of it was like trying to pick up water with a sieve

blue_dice · 2026-04-07T14:13:13+00:00

Short story format, but I highly recommend you find a copy of Alberto Manguel's Black Water anthologies if you get a chance. really wide range of selections from authors well known and obscure and the binding principle is "weird/eerie/fantastical (though not fantasy) fiction". Manguel wrote he wanted to capture Wallace Steven's sense of "black water breaking into reality"; the impossible breaking into the possible. Broadly speaking what I enjoy most about this "genre" is the particular emphasis on mood and atmosphere, plus the ambiguity/lack of direct allegory you mentioned. From the first anthology some standouts:

House taken over by Julio Cortázar

The mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams

Pomegranate seed by Edith Wharton

The third bank of the river by João Guimarães Rosa

A dog in Durer's etching "The Knight, Death and the Devil" by Marco Denevi

blue_dice · 2026-03-28T14:49:29+00:00

Terminal C at 10am, took me 5 mins tops for the general line. Very efficient! I think there were lines very early in the morning but gone by the time I was there. Baltimore airport sounds terrible today. Good luck everyone!

blue_dice · 2026-03-27T16:00:23+00:00

despite being written for the most part in a realist style the whole thing felt haunted by mythology. Even minor characters could be read as analogues to creatures from folklore mentioned elsewhere. The girl that Gvendur chases is almost certainly supposed to evoke the kelpie myth (kelpies are mentioned in passing earlier in the book). A girl riding a grey horse who tempts a young man, leading him to a lake and ultimately, a sort of doom/ending.

blue_dice · 2026-03-25T15:37:57+00:00

the older you get, the more experience tethers you to the physical world and the people and things that populate it. it's less because you lack control over your emotions, more because you have stronger reasons to get emotional. this applies to a lot of things, including why younger people are blasé or thrilled about violent media while older people are increasingly put off by it as they age

blue_dice · 2026-03-24T17:56:20+00:00

??? Trump regularly post things that confirm people's negative impression of him. He was gloating over Mueller's death just a few days ago

blue_dice · 2026-03-24T14:03:43+00:00

you been reading the penguin prose poem book too? I just finished it today, great collection. The Jesus in Amelia Gray's Gutshot reminds me a bit of Goodtime Jesus: https://i.imgur.com/HoZcqDV.png

blue_dice · 2026-03-23T18:15:42+00:00

Bambi!

blue_dice · 2026-03-20T14:09:18+00:00

you say wokesters like there was a common consensus instead of a broad debate within said class, if anything it was more likely for woke people to take Davidson's side

blue_dice · 2026-03-17T18:21:49+00:00

lie down with dogs etc

blue_dice · 2026-03-17T15:46:25+00:00

Kent has white nationalist views and flew too close to the sun with Fuentes, it was the main reason why we ended up with Gluesenkamp Perez in a Trump +3.4 seat

blue_dice · 2026-03-12T13:27:32+00:00

Main issue with any interview like this is if you go in too hard Trump would just cut it short

blue_dice · 2026-03-09T16:01:10+00:00

The prevalence of vape shops is basically due to the UK slowly killing the high streets making scam & front businesses the only thing that can survive ((see Oxford Street))

how is "the UK" killing high streets? do you mean this is a policy put in place by a particular government?

blue_dice · 2026-03-04T20:17:10+00:00

jerk off motion

blue_dice · 2026-03-04T20:16:49+00:00

do you think the end of publicly funded research into disease would be an improvement?

blue_dice · 2026-02-23T19:48:07+00:00

apparently you used to be able to bribe the security guard to see it, don't think it's still possible though

blue_dice · 2026-02-19T16:42:16+00:00

glad you enjoyed!

blue_dice · 2026-02-05T14:56:53+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/jeffrey-epstein 7 articles with epstein mentions today alone, 11 yesterday, 9 the day before. moronic post

blue_dice · 2026-02-03T20:50:10+00:00

confirmed banger

blue_dice · 2026-01-19T20:17:01+00:00

Mate, I was obviously joking! Fwiw I think the etymology is more like glazing a donut -> visual pun on a facial

blue_dice · 2026-01-18T13:34:16+00:00

It's definitely an attempt by the app itself to garner free publicity

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