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01 Sep 2020, 2:40 am

Really neat discourse from Gordon about the current moment, COVID, myths of redemptive violence that have echoed around our culture since time immemorial, etc.


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01 Sep 2020, 5:25 am

and there's a fairy tale of "The Nightingale"
about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale

"How common it looks", said the chamberlain
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