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9 years, 2 months ago

grasping for purchased cool archive/silicon-jest

Without explicitly telling him, she moved in the next day, and found that he was a born lavisher: of back rubs and pharmaceuticals and his freezerful of weed. By day he was some Silicon Valley wanker, clearly grasping for purchased cool. It was embarrassing to date a boy who bought clothes at the s…

—p.65 Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
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9 years, 2 months ago

valorization

guys wearing T-shirts of the tech companies they worked for, or that guy wearing ... cat ears? Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation. Ecosystems needed predators. Yet San Francisco was nothing if not vegetarian.

kinda funny and not all that wrong

—p.64 by Tony Tulathimutte
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a $20,000 engagement ring archive/silicon-jest

Will finished his scotch, took up his keys, and drove downtown, returning three hours later with a $20,000 engagement ring. [...]

—p.62 by Tony Tulathimutte
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trellis

Had he grown around the trellis of stereotype or was he maliciously complying with it?

Will, on dating Vanya being the only non-stereotypical thing he's ever done

—p.55 by Tony Tulathimutte
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nacre

her teeth with their nacre glassiness

—p.47 by Tony Tulathimutte
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