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On Potentiality, #1
I have a childhood friend who is just a tiny bit younger than me but always so much younger, her skin never showing her age, her cheek marked with a birthmark so Hawthornian it seemed impossible ever … more →
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On Potentiality, #1
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supervalentthought wrote 1 month ago: I have a childhood friend who is just a tiny bit younger than me but always so much younger, her ski … more →
My Favorite Things
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decodesociety wrote 2 months ago: Sound of Music is in my top grossing non-dislodgeable favorites movie list of all time. And I simpl … more →
Looking for Mr. (W)Right
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supervalentthought wrote 3 months ago: Column 2 in a series; see below. This is how love starts: a crush. Your body intensifies, gaining … more →
Other people's optimism
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supervalentthought wrote 3 months ago: (Column 1 in a series; the Long version; experiment in political journalism; see “Credibility … more →
Credibility and Incredibility
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supervalentthought wrote 3 months ago: My recent work is about resistance to change, but tracks optimism, I think, because its persistence … more →
Against Sexual Scandal
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supervalentthought wrote 5 months ago: If I were an actual public intellectual, here’s an op-ed I would write. I don’t know ac … more →
A Barrel of Acid and a Barrel of Water, or "Things happen like this."
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supervalentthought wrote 5 months ago: I am having an amusing physical problem now–lex talionis, almost literally. My tear ducts per … more →
Optimism and Distension ("Something about what happens when we talk.")
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supervalentthought wrote 6 months ago: I heard from two friends today who wanted to say something on the blog, but were too shy and too ave … more →
And for our science faculty...
reden wrote 7 months ago: … perhaps we can start the year with a formula or two: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/379 … more →
George Kress, of Winder GA
supervalentthought wrote 7 months ago: The Minneapolis Airport today was stacked so deep with returning travelers that the security lines b … more →
Faceless book
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supervalentthought wrote 7 months ago: Today I introduced Facebook to someone older than me and had a long conversation about what the poi … more →
Another way to think about normativity.
supervalentthought wrote 7 months ago: For the last few years I’ve been writing about aspirational normativity—a concept that describes … more →
The experience that made me start this blog.
supervalentthought wrote 8 months ago: I was in a Walgreens last night, on the way to picking up dinner for the cancer family I’m sta … more →
Enlifement
lovedintobeing wrote 9 months ago: I know very little about Norman Mailer but have been hearing lots about him in the past week. Last … more →
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