“On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”
Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)
6/10
#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #postmodern #metafiction
We don't mourn the death of originality cuz we're too busy liking, reposting, reenacting, all while thinking we're the protagonists.
But we're not. We're extras in a film with no director.
That's the standalone complex: a revolution without a cause, a ghost with no shell.
#Baudrillard #GhostintheShell #StandAloneComplex #postmodern
“Published posthumously in 1978 and now reprinted for the first time, her classic study POETIC ARTIFICE marked a provocative intervention… It is not the job of poetry to deliver states of ‘inarticulate rapture’, but to be the articulation of that rapture”
3/3
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #WomenWriters #postmodern
“For the uninitiated: she’s a literary cult figure, a rising star of British post-World War II poetry and criticism whose career came to an abrupt halt when she died suddenly in 1975, at age 27… Today, Forrest-Thomson is more relevant than ever”
2/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/142033/the-rise-of-veronica-forrest-thomson
#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #WomenWriters #postmodern
Mirror, mirror on the wall
show me in succession all
my faces, that I may view
and choose which I would like as true…
—“Through the Looking Glass”, by Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947–1975) – born #OTD, 28 Nov
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Shearsman Books, 2008)
1/3
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143680/through-the-looking-glass
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #WomenWriters #postmodern
#354 - Als er geen drinkwater meer is? - JACK&JOZEF -
#ad #fy #fyp #H2O #drinkwater #DenkVooruit #Noodpakket #crisis #Cabaret #overheid #LifeHack #podcast #PodcastGemist #news #media #ironie #postmodern #absurdisme #WeerEenDag #vandaaginside #talpanetwork
#352 - Ga weg, dit is mijn land? - JACK&JOZEF -
#ad #Nederland #Symboliek #Nationaal #Geopolitiek #Niemandsland #Cabaret #overheid #LifeHack #podcast #PodcastGemist #news #media #ironie #postmodern #absurdisme #WeerEenDag #vandaaginside #talpanetwork
#TuesdayColumn: That moment when you realise that genre of #MusicalTheatre is in fact the most tsundere of #postmodern #art forms #writing #musical #artcritique
In Rejection of the Audience:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/in-rejection-of-the-audience/
#350.2 - Survey Tsunami - JACK&JOZEF -
We're Done With Customer Feedback Surveys
#ad #fy #fyp #shop #webshop #feedback #survey #enquete #lifehack #podcast #PodcastGemist #lifelessons #news #media #ironie #talkshow #postmodern #absurdisme #weereendag #vandaaginside #TalpaNetwork
#350.3 - Behind The Scenes - JACK&JOZEF -
We can talk for hours about nothing.
#ad #fy #fyp #TalkShow #LateNightShow #RadioShow #TvShow #lifehack #podcast #PodcastGemist #lifelessons #news #media #ironie #talkshow #postmodern #absurdisme #weereendag #vandaaginside #TalpaNetwork
#350.1 - Stop Asking Me! - JACK&JOZEF -
The daily terror of surveys.
#ad #fy #fyp #DHL #dentist #passport #townhall #survey #enquête #lifehack #podcast #PodcastGemist #lifelessons #news #media #ironie #talkshow #postmodern #absurdisme #weereendag #vandaaginside #TalpaNetwork
#351 - De Terreur van Enquêtes - JACK&JOZEF -
Moet je nu echt voor alle een enquête invullen?
#ad #enquete #DHL #overheid #management #LifeHack #podcast #PodcastGemist #news #media #ironie #postmodern #absurdisme #WeerEenDag #vandaaginside #talpanetwork
#350.3 - Deadly Serious - JACK&JOZEF -
Can we still laugh?
#ad #fy #verkiezingen #stemmen #stemmen #PeterPannekoek #YoupVantHek #AndreVanDuin #KevinHart #DaveChappelle #news #media #ironie #absurdisme #lifelessons #postmodern #absurdisme #weereendag #vandaaginside #TalpaNetwork
“The core problem with #OneBattleAfterAnother is that it’s a fish out of water: a #postmodern caper dropped into the brutal return of #modernist #politics, including ( #fascist) #authoritarianism” open.substack.com/pub/victorsh...
One Damn Thing After Another
#350.1 - New Political Party - JACK&JOZEF -
If you have to make a choice?
#ad #verkiezingen #stemmen #Voting #voites #elections #coalition #PVV #PvdA #GroenLinks #d66 #CDA #VVD #JA21 #FvD #SP #PvdD #BBB #Denk #SGP #Volt #CU #50Plus #nsc #media #ironie #postmodern #absurdisme
#350 - Elk jaar naar de stembus - JACK&JOZEF -
Wordt het kabinet steeds instabieler?
#ad #verkiezingen #stemmen #PVV #PvdA #GroenLinks #d66 #CDA #VVD #JA21 #FvD #SP #PvdD #BBB #Denk #SGP #Volt #CU #50Plus #nsc #media #ironie #postmodern #absurdisme
#349.2 - Forgotten Women´s Rights? - JACK&JOZEF -
Sea Letter - Power of attorney for the absent spouse.
#ad #Women #emancipation #sailor #independent #lifehack #podcast #PodcastGemist #lifelessons #news #media #ironie #talkshow #postmodern #absurdisme #weereendag #vandaaginside
#349 - Vrouwen aan de wal - JACK&JOZEF -
Zeemansvrouwen als eerste handelingsbekwaam.
#ad #vrouwen #Schiedam #zeevaart #LifeHack #podcast #PodcastGemist #lifelessons #news #media #ironie #postmodern #absurdisme #WeerEenDag #vandaaginside #talpanetwork
#349.1 - Why are People Disrespectful? - JACK&JOZEF -
Stop Walking Through Our Shot.
#ad #video #Podcast #disrespectful #Video #barrier #lifehack #podcast #PodcastGemist #lifelessons #news #media #ironie #talkshow #postmodern #absurdisme #weereendag #vandaaginside #TalpaNetwork
