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snulbug:

snulbug:

I really do feel that the cult of personality around stan lee is reflective of a larger contemporary misunderstanding about how art production works but like frog emoji tea emoji

is the iliad good bc of the first poet who had the idea of a guy who’s immortal everywhere but his ankle? do we have to keep building monuments to individual men instead of recognizing how many different artists’ work goes into creating a single comic book or movie, never mind an entire pop culture mythos? hark! the days of the people’s cinematic universe are fast upon us

nemophilies:

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[…] lovers who touch each other with words, whose contact with each other is made of words, and who can thus repeat themselves without end, marveling at the utterly banal, because their speech is not a language, but an idiom they share with no other, and because each gazes at themselves in the other’s gaze in a redoubling which goes from mirage to admiration.” 

— Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.”

—  Alain de Botton, On Love