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Yesterday afternoon, I flew a kite high on the dunes beside the bay. For moments, at a time, it was deliriously good.

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Rewatched Dunkirk for the first time since seeing it on the big screen in '17. A phenomenal achievement. Bresson's A Man Escaped magnified. Arguably, the best and most stirring film of the last-quarter century. And this actor, as Tommy, was a casting coup. Humanity in those eyes.

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Sometimes I forget how formative a presence in book and film, and writing, The World According to Garp was for me.

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Right now, there's a solid 40 million citizens in the republic's electorate who would cast their votes for Don Jr. in 2028 without a second thought.

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“Teresa, I had a dream last night about you and me. I gotta tell you this … we're just about to make love and I come. The only thing is, I come blood. And blood went all over the place! Squirtin' all over the place, all over you, all over me, my hands, and everything.”

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This look of hers, wild-eyed yet somehow lucid, is timelessly extraordinary to me.

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Secretary Hegseth and President Trump on a Mar-a-Lago balcony this weekend.

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In reading Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity, I recognize in her categorizations of types — e.g. the nihilist, the adventurer, the passionate man, the tyrant — figures whom would score high on more than 1 of the dark tetrad personality traits popularly discussed in psychology today.

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1985, man. 1985.

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Theoretical abstractions, & ideological extremism, drains people of the affirmation, & recognition that all of us, not just Americans or Westerners or Christians or whatever group, are here on this globe in existential tension. If you’re not in solidarity with this, we have a serious problem.

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What is a rebel?

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"I'm glad he met you first." Maybe the most meaningful line in all of Spielberg.

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When a certain set of ideas, & their articulation, gains an individual significant adulation, money, & influence, I imagine that individual being hesitant to challenge that set of ideas in a way that may shift, change or evolve them. Yet, not only is this an intellectual failure, but a moral one.

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Trump, his Cabinet, and many MAGA hats — I have friends or rather former friends, and even family members, and colleagues, whom I would say don't exhibit these traits as individuals, but who have increasingly shown the willingness to excuse them. Which I consider just as dangerous & destructive.

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You guys can have Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, I'll keep Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers.

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Trump’s not a Nazi, Dude. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.

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All these men-need-to-be-men influencers and podcasters making their fame and fortunes from typing on keyboards, sitting on their asses in air-conditioned studios, and filming videos of themselves with their personal trainers. You know, real ancient warrior shit.

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