#TheNovel in Eekhoutstraat 1, #Bruges, serves a very decent #decaf #espresso—and you can order it also as #lungo (pictured) or even #ristretto, which requires some skill to prepare.

#Brugge #coffee

The second post is on ‘Her’ which I rediscovered thanks to Sam Altman’s tweet, and again, felt like writing a bit much on!

https://thenovel.substack.com/

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#Her #AI #ScarlettJohansson #scifi #books #movie #thenovel

@bookstodon

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Almost four years after creating it, finally launched a slow corner to write hedonistically on books & maybe a movie or show thrown in.

First post is me overthinking about #Tagore’s Home and the World, AND Scarlett Johansson voiced #Her.

Do read The Novel: https://thenovel.substack.com/

#books #movies #thenovel #literature #AI #Her #Tagore @bookstodon #indianliterature

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Ok, so I hired myself as a Senior Reader and Associate Binge-Watcher.

Basically, this is how you overthink an old #Tagore novel (Home and the World) & a #ScarlettJohansson movie in the news.

https://thenovel.substack.com/

(PS: It could have been two posts but was figuring the whole backend (still am!) and just put it in one.)

#Thenovel #Tagore #Her #Homeandtheworld #IndianLiterature #longreads #bookreview #moviereview #AI @bookstodon

From: @sarahf
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Final out-loud read, 23 chapters, started last night, on 4 now, hoping to finish 12 by evening.
#TheNovel
Why so much bullshit? Money?
> The characteristic work of the novel is to record the illusion that snobbery generates and to try to penetrate to the truth which, as the novel assumes, lies hidden beneath all the false appearances. #Money, #Snobbery the ideal of status, these become in themselves the objects of fantasy, the support of the fantasies of love, freedom, charm, power...
#LionelTrilling in the book, The #MoralObligation #ToBeIntelligent, essay,
#MannersMorals And #TheNovel
> .. #TheNovel is born with the appearance of money as a social element #money, the great solvent of the solid fabric of the old society, the great generator of illusion.. to say much the same thing, the novel is born in response to snobbery. #Snobbery is not the same thing as pride of class.. aristocratic pride was based ultimately on the ability to fight and administer.. pride of class may be thought of as today we think of pride of profession, toward which we are likely to be lenient.
#Novel
MILITARY FUNCTION RAMM*ELEVATION*Z
Symbolic Wars use Slang and Ionics;
In this pamphlet you will learn the formation of knowledge and the skills for translating a symbol, universal symbols, the dictionary, all word-formations and any sentence, paragraph, page, or study - including the Bible!
#theNovel #PanicArcadia