Shane Devine
@shane_devine_
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Writer | serializing a novel about the 2010s
New Jersey
Joined August 2023
New: first part of a 90k-word essay on Heidegger’s reading of Hölderlin’s poetry and its relation to the confrontation with World Technology. This part involves a close-reading of Hegel’s theory of the End of Art and an explication of Heidegger’s "Der Ister" lecture.
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People once asked Schubert why his music was so sad, and he replied, 'Why is there such a thing as happy music?'
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21 in C major: "Call this Andante a distilled avatar of sexuality: desire, caress, piercing relief, languorous aftermath.. Who but Mozart could more beautifully encompass the subtle, the concise, and the voluptuous, could more exquisitely interweave the worldly and transcendent?"
On Mozart's piano concerto 20 in D minor. "Bach’s surface is often complex, a texture of dense counterpoint, but under the surface are simple formal outlines. Mozart’s surface is often deceptively simple and direct..."
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On Mozart's piano concerto 20 in D minor. "Bach’s surface is often complex, a texture of dense counterpoint, but under the surface are simple formal outlines. Mozart’s surface is often deceptively simple and direct..."
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King shit tbh
@pourfairelevide I don't know anything about your family or your life, but I'm sure if people were making snide little insinuations about it, you wouldn't be too happy, it's fucking slimy and weird, so don't tell me to take it easy, I have every right to tell you to go fuck yourself
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“Temperance and exercise are the two great preservatives of health, and the art of reconciling intemperance and health is as chimerical as the philosopher’s stone, judicial astrology, or the theology of the magi.” — Voltaire’s Zadig to a fat Arabian lord
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Mozart: “If the speech of the Ghost in ‘Hamlet’ were not quite so long, it would be much more effective”
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“Democratic literatures are always crawling with authors who see literature as nothing more than an industry, and for every great writer there are thousands of retailers of ideas.” - Tocqueville
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Historical materialism vindicated, and Asiatification continues
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Children are real, but you aren’t
Children, like politics, are not “real” so much as they are accessories to vanity. Like a purse, handbag, or car. They are an aesthetic accoutrement. This baby I got I would kill for it. You understand? With a yawn and flick of my wrist I would have men killed for this baby.
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Literal immortality is impossible—if you crushed @bryan_johnson’s final form with a bus or perhaps a stack of freight train cars he’d still die—it is (will be) rather just indefinite longevity, cure to “cancer.” Memento mori remains the chief Authenticator
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Ezra Pound takes aim at Spengler. "His most annoying tendency is to believe that bad art indicates something more than just bad art." Pound argues all worthwhile art of his generation came from rejection of the established press houses.
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Whatever is mass produced or mass consumed is historically meaningless, and history is decided by a handful of men per century
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Une page de l’Iliade annotée de la main de Jean Racine
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“Roman Helmet Guy”
“It’s a Wonderful Life” was considered deliberate communist subversion by the FBI in 1947 (the villain is a rich landlord, and the writers had close ties to known communists), but our culture’s changed so much that it now plays as right-wing because it’s pro-family.
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Average Platonist
For telling his college girlfriend in a 1982 letter: “My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men…. In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove
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Capra shows heroism is possible in modern art if you do it right, a struggle that was close to Lynch's heart https://t.co/wWyHA238BO
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We were collectively punished with 24/7 cable news because of this
Ted Turner (now a billionaire) wanted to major in Classics in college. You won’t believe the letter his father sent him. (1/3)
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