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The late Hitchens kicked that bar and Bible studies question’s ass years ago. The bottom line is read books. If that person looks like me, and it’s a gay bar crowd or the Westboro Baptist Church? Cherry picking sure. Lets cherry pick something to read. Christians are fine, I like Dostoevsky as much as anyone. But by all means get people into Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Joyce by showing all the fart and dick jokes. Everyone knows kids love fart and dick jokes. We can give the feminists a chance. It’s not a mystery why WAP was a hit. Moralizing is going to push kids further into counter culture, highlighting the counters of culture makes them real, and approachable. Reading is reading.

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If you see Kay,

Tell him he may...

(Can you complete this bit of Joycean silliness from Ulysses? 🙂)

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Jan 8, 2022·edited Jan 8, 2022

Yes. See you in tea. Tell him from me. Yes.

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Your catechism is perfect, Molly. You may now graduate from Clongowes.

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People like Coates for Black Panther, not Between the World and Me, they have always liked him for Black Panther. If you know it’s a bunch of young people obsessed with super heroes and saving the world, then things make much more sense on the left. People shrug and say, “that’s kid stuff,” and then wonder why it is so academically lightweight. Three rules of super heroes. 1. The hero is always right. 2. The conflict is always resolved in a fight. 3. Heroes are good and villains are bad.

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