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every farewell is a death

I got off the train
And said goodbye to the man I’d met.
We’d been together for eighteen hours
And had a pleasant conversation,
Fellowship in the journey,
And I was sorry to get off, sorry to leave
This chance friend whose name I never learned.
I felt my eyes water with tears . . .
Every fa…

—p.202 Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS: The Jaded Sensationist (139) by Fernando Pessoa

clarion (en)

(noun) a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones / (noun) the sound of or as if of a clarion / (adjective) brilliantly clear / (adjective) loud and clear

he has been widely hailed as a genius, a visionary, a clarion voice

—p.viii The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance Preface (viii) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia
Jeb Lund - The Concourse

Chasing Utopias
by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National
by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Super Position
by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

Book chapters (46)

Introduction
by William H. Gass - The Recognitions

The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing
by David Foster Wallace - The David Foster Wallace Reader

Borderland
by Stathis Kouvelakis - New Left Review 110

Fear Factor
by Tom Carson - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Society as Checkpoint
by n+1 - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

Caedmon's Dream: On the Politics of Style
by Richard Seymour - Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Socialism for Realists
by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

The neoliberal revolution
by Stuart Hall - The Neoliberal Revolution

Project Runway
How to build a better failure. - Failure (Logic #5)

SOUNDS
by Vladimir Nabokov - The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Perfection
by Sarah Manguso - The Paris Review Issue 233

Spadework
by Alyssa Battistoni - n+1 Issue 34: Head Case

E Unibus Pluram
by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace
Larry McCaffery / 1993 - Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Notes on Trap
by Jesse McCarthy - n+1 Issue 32: Bad Faith

Hype and Critique
by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann - Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction

Cash/Consent
by Lorelei Lee - n+1 Issue 35: Savior Complex

Progressive neoliberalism versus reactionary populism: a Hobson's choice
by Nancy Fraser - The Great Regression

Socialize the Data Centres!
by Evgeny Morozov - New Left Review 91

Novels and Children
by Roland Barthes - Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

Freedom Isn't Free
by Wendy Liu - Failure (Logic #5)

Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed
by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

The Portrait (1835 version)
by Nikolai Gogol - The Nose and Other Stories

Authority and American Usage
by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

§9
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Marxist Supernanny
by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Two Weeks in the Capital
by Nicolás Medina Mora - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
An American family’s struggle for student loan redemption - The Baffler No. 40 - Forced Exposure

Who Works for the Workers?
by Gabriel Winant - n+1 Issue 26: Dirty Work

Old Ship
by Kristin Dombek - n+1 Issue 27: Deep End

The Myth of Sisyphus
by Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The Semplica Girl Diaries
by George Saunders - Tenth of December

Octet
by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

§19
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance
by Richard M. Rorty - Philosophy and Social Hope

§22
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

On millennials
by Gabriel Winant - n+1 Issue 30: Motherland

Schenectady
- Granta 148: Summer Fiction

Life Aboard the Rocket Ship: An Interview with an Anonymous Engineer
An engineer fails up, down, and sideways. - Failure (Logic #5)

Remember Who the Enemy Is
by Mark Fisher - K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

The Meme Hustler: Tim O'Reilly's Crazy Talk
by Evgeny Morozov - No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
by David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

§24
by David Foster Wallace - The Pale King

Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

SPRING IN FIALTA
by Vladimir Nabokov - The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

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