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Thanks, JA, for reminding me to nudge Kierkegaard back onto the reading list last night. housingworksbookstore: Ames pulled out letters he’d written to an Australian friend in 1990. He explained they’d bonded over their appreciation for German writer Thomas Mann and that Amesh had, for a time, imagined himself a “young gentleman” out of The Magic Mountain or Brideshead Revisited. “I couldn’t keep up with you and Thomas Mann and I thought you would find me lacking as an intellectual foil,” he read. “I felt embarrassed I wasn’t as interested in Mann and this made me insecure. I know this sounds ridiculous, but this is the truth.” (via Snail-mail celebration as Rumpus starts subscription service where readers get letters from notable authors | Capital New York) Photo: Stephen Elliott by Dan Rosenblum

Thanks, JA, for reminding me to nudge Kierkegaard back onto the reading list last night.

housingworksbookstore:

Ames pulled out letters he’d written to an Australian friend in 1990. He explained they’d bonded over their appreciation for German writer Thomas Mann and that Amesh had, for a time, imagined himself a “young gentleman” out of The Magic Mountain or Brideshead Revisited. “I couldn’t keep up with you and Thomas Mann and I thought you would find me lacking as an intellectual foil,” he read. “I felt embarrassed I wasn’t as interested in Mann and this made me insecure. I know this sounds ridiculous, but this is the truth.” (via Snail-mail celebration as Rumpus starts subscription service where readers get letters from notable authors | Capital New York)

Photo: Stephen Elliott by Dan Rosenblum

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    to nudge Kierkegaard back onto...reading list last night.
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    Speaking of, this was awesome last night.
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