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6 years, 5 months ago

sobbing, I ask myself on my knees

The first is the fiefdom of Osvaldo Soriano, who was a good minor novelist. When it comes to Soriano, you have to have a brain full of fecal matter to see him as someone around whom a literary movement can be built. I don’t mean he’s bad. As I’ve said: he’s good, he’s fun, he’s essentially an autho…

—p.21 Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño
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6 years, 6 months ago

you’re raising issues that are beyond my scope

Let us entertain, then, the possibility you are a successful man when it comes to understanding finance and that you have a knack for making money multiply but that you are a stupid man when it comes to understanding politics, history, and ideas. Why pretend otherwise? Like most people devoted to a…

—p.81 The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie An Open Letter to Leon Cooperman (76) by The Baffler
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this is how it always is with plutocrats
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this is how it always is with plutocrats
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this is how it always is with plutocrats

[...] it could be that you are so sensitive or defensive about your privilege that any little jibe about riding on “your corporate jet” seems beyond the bounds of decent discourse. I’m going to strain here for the most charitable interpretation: you felt singled out. You have a simpleton’s idea stu…

—p.80 An Open Letter to Leon Cooperman (76) by The Baffler