Or, on interdisciplinary thinking. I'm writing from my kitchen table, which has historically been one of my favorite places to write. There's cello music in the background, and I'm about to hit my 3 pm slump. When I was younger, even in some of my early popular writing, I think I lobbed around critiques of industrialization without really understanding what industrialization is. Now that I've gotten older, I can sort of look back and laugh at myself and understand that "the d

hello cuties angels lovers and other hot literarians Today, I am on my third cup of coffee in my hot literati mug and I'm sitting in my new reading chair, typing into an old fashioned blog. I've very passionate about an old fashioned blog. I've had one since I was fourteen, even though I've developed or "reverted to draft" most of the pieces. My writing used to be disgustingly flowery because I was obsessed with Fitzgerald and Nabokov. Now, I still love both of them, but I've

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the sacred heart represents Jesus Christs' divine love for humanity Today, after going to the cobbler, I stopped in to see my New York grandpa. We always talk about the weather, food, and our love lives. He knew that my most recent relationship wouldn't work out and we meditated on how "people aren't the same anymore, men don't come up to women and say 'hello, I think you're beautiful, i'd like to take you on a date' and women get scared when they do" and when you talk to som

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