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After 2001: A Space Odyssey wrapped, Stanley Kubrick did something that feels less like a post-production decision and more like the final act of a Bond villain: he had all the sets and props destroyed. The glowing monolith? Gone. The EVA pods? Scrapped. The sleek interior of the Discovery One, with its antiseptic beauty and unsettling symmetry? Bulldozed into oblivion.
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Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1834)
When you first look at The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, you might not even notice the executioner. That’s what’s so striking about it.
This isn’t a painting about violence—it’s a painting about the moment just before violence. It’s about innocence, fragility, and the unbearable stillness that comes right before something terrible happens.
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A Drop Returning to the Ocean: On the Quiet Grace of Death
There’s this scene in White Lotus—Season 3, Episode 6, to be specific. It’s not loud or dramatic. No one’s getting slapped. No one’s confessing to murder. It’s just Tim Ratliff, asking a question he’s probably never said out loud before.
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The Most American Thing Ever: Going Into Debt for Nachos
I’ve always believed that America’s defining trait is its ability to take a bad idea, wrap it in convenience, market it as freedom, and then defend it to the death like it’s a founding principle. This is a country where people will finance a mattress with 72-month APR and then sleep on it like Thomas Jefferson personally endorsed the coil count.
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A Few Answers To Questions You Always Wondered About
What exactly is a Sociopath?
Let’s start with a picture in your head. You hear sociopath, and immediately you’re thinking: dark alley, trench coat, possibly holding a knife and humming an off-key lullaby. Or maybe you’re imagining Patrick Bateman doing crunches while explaining Huey Lewis and the News.
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Soviet civilians in Moscow hearing the radio announcement that Germany has started the invasion of the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941
The radio cracked and spat like a fire without flame. A thin voice uncoiled from it, dry and plain and terrible. The men and women gathered in silence, hunched like figures carved from wood, their breath held like currency in a time of famine. The words came slow, as if dragged behind a cart. Germany has invaded.
