Joey > Recent Status Updates

Imagine being the guy God rejected for his holy army because he drank water like a dog hahahahah

645 pages. 50 in and it's already a legitimately brilliant work of prose and one of the most scholastic biographies I've come across. Obviously we know why this is not seen anywhere on Goodreads. Gemkow spent his career translating and researching the Marx and Engels correspondence and there has arguably been few individuals since Engels' death that had such a grasp of the thinkers contributions to Marx's work

It's astounding how with every Marxist biography more footnotes are for hearsay from wives of friends of dead former cohorts than for legitimate primary evidence or historical works. I fucking hate America

Honestly can't say I've had BAD interactions with any trots or their various organs, but holy fuck Trotsky is such a whiny bitch the others in the nerd crew threw math textbooks at him.

I gotta admit it's getting better, Paul!

assumptions critiquing assumptions around myth and biblical verse. Sontag seems to have zero knowledge of the vast biblical mythical interpretive work that stretches not the enlightenment era as she marks it but thousands of years. Some astounding misunderstandings of Modern art w/out consulting artist theorists like Rothko who outright reject her non interprative reading which is coming from Pound(?) stretchinggggg

I couldn't let Kotkin win.
Returning to this after the other worldly psychological mapping by Ellman of Joyce, leaves me even more upset with Kotkins choices. A good historian avoids pathology. Lots of dire straits concession depicted post hoc as the struggle of individuals, while glossing over the lack of material gain they received for this supposed greed. The quiet implication is world domination of a few

NYRB really fucked around with the page numbering here and I'm not on board

Crazy how much of this is working and how well so far. Another Master Builder

Closing in on the halfway mark and all that time I spent reading Hegel and quantum physics rather than enjoying the summer are starting to pay off. Hulk Hogan was quite right when he said, "Miss Macintosh, My darling, eat thine vegetal or sayeth your prayer"