"Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the AIR, and to live in dependence on the WEATHER and the WIND, for the only blessings with NATURE has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the SKY for the nutriment of our BODIES, is the condition of NATURE; to call upon the SUN for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the CLOUDS lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of dleness, and the idolatry of folly." JOHNSON: Idler #11 (June 24, 1758)
![38-year-old “ironically”/”prophetically” morbidly obese and visibly jaundiced Tao Lin, author of 9 novels and 2 illegitimate “hapa” children, at Columbia University’s Creative Writing 2021 annual symposium “The Otherness of The Other: Other Ways to View Oneself Besides Boring” panel discussion (seated far left, visibly deflated after answering “seems like…I don’t know” to the three questions he was asked) vaguely “squinting” with left (and only operational) eye at group of semi-anorexic ~22-to-23 year-old recent graduates from Sarah Lawrence now fashion bloggers, all of whom he envisions having non-detached relations with, simultaneously, “on” 2x slow-release 20 mg Ritalin tablets, 3-month-expired NyQuil gel-caps, and a “sex swing” adorned with dried eucalyptus leaves imported from Australia affixed in PPOW gallery installation w/ speakers playing koala bear mating sounds. Lin is heard mumbling something about defunct literary enterprise Muumuu house, “needing only 217 twitter followers until [he] reach[es], like, one million maybe” and something about a pâté smootie moments before MDMA-induced seizure, by which gasps of Diane Williams-esque “odd” and vaguely passive-aggressive NOON worthy dialog followed.
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