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Fictional Characters, Ranked in Order of How Well They Use Their Stuff
Fictional Characters, Ranked in Order of How Well They Use Their Stuff

There is joy in efficient resource usage, like how I tie together this monstrously long essay with the thinnest of critical through-lines.

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Comedy, Film and TV, LiteratureWhat to Think About Artmickey mouse, beanstalk, disney, ivan denisovich, maus, seven samurai, kurosawa, last of the mohicans, better call saul, portnoy's complaint, crazy ex girlfriend, catcher in the rye, the iliad, dazed and confused, mildred pierce, the good earth, hamilton, louis ck Comment
Borges, Stravinsky, and Badness in the Artistic Process
Borges, Stravinsky, and Badness in the Artistic Process

Music school wasn’t about how to make music good. That part was, perhaps wrongly, assumed. No, music school is where you figure out whether music should be good. And that’s where it starts to get bad.

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Comedy, Film and TV, Gallery/Visual Art, LiteratureWhat to Think About Artborges, pierre menard, stravinsky, pulcinella, rite of spring, bach, schoenberg, pierrot lunaire, cats, andrew lloyd webber, miniature cooking, bad art, conan, walker texas rangerComment