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Tim Combes
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"We are trapped between the dead and the unborn, the past ghosts and the future ghosts, and they matter less. . . Our ultimate loyalties must be to the loud and ruthless present.
— Mar 17, 2026 11:00AM
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Tim Combes
is 47% done
"A fiend had come in the night to take an ice-cream scoop to my brain and made off with my darkest emotional flavours, fury, humiliation, self-pity, desolation. If they all came back at once, they would wreck me."
They do come back. And they do wreck you.
— Mar 16, 2026 11:32AM
They do come back. And they do wreck you.
Tim Combes
is 33% done
“The essays were semi-literate but adequate by the low standards imposed from above”
Ian… if you only knew
— Mar 12, 2026 01:32PM
Ian… if you only knew
Tim Combes
is 23% done
“We console ourselves that we are more in touch than they are with the bottomless ignorance of the generational zeitgeist.”
Evergreen humanities attitude
— Mar 11, 2026 12:52PM
Evergreen humanities attitude
