Mo Martin and nothing but! @MordecaiPinhas@sunbeam.city

ME!

Here's my #introduction

I'm 31, I've lived in Jerusalem, New York, and Mexico City.

I'm working on a degree in creative writing.

I like talking about #Judaism #Occultism #HopePunk #OnlineCulture #DoItYourselfArt #Zines #Podcasting #BookHistory #IntellectualHistory #Pedagogy #Travel

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I have written this account in penitence and in grief, as a man who failed to raise his pig - E.B. White, Death Of A Pig

Good friends are great, because you can just send them texts that say, "I got too sad, I can't come" and they get it.

Underneath my beard, a poem.
*ahem*

It is itchy
Underneath my beard

I downloaded Europa Universalis IV, that incredibly detailed game where you get to build a medieval and early modern European power, and now I'm feeling guilty for digitally colonizing the Americas.

There's just so much I want and need to accomplish, and some days I just can't, or it feels like I can't, or I don't, or won't, I dunno

Having a hard time being sufficiently gentle with myself

Two guys next to me having the conversation I can’t wait to be having as an old man: who died vs who’s alive but an asshole

The great thing about D&D is not that you can fight a dragon AND run a tavern AND steal a jewel AND cast a grand illusion AND sing a song. The great thing is that there are detailed rule sets about how to do all of that.

I’m high and a wizard, what

is

UP

DUNGEONS & DRUGONS

What would this materially look like? Perhaps it would mean investing more in the arts in general, instead of in specific artists. So instead of rewarding artists for their work proportionate to interest in it, we could instead invest in the scene they came from, their milieu. In other words, when I write a billion dollar book, after rewarding my labor appropriately, we then spend the rest of the money investing in arts education in the area I wrote about, or wrote in. All artists now work de facto for the NEA, which becomes self sustaining.

One way, of course, would be to deconstruct the idea of an author as an individual. An author, like all public personas, possibly like all people, is a complex meshwork of impressions, ideas, events, relationships, interactions. To deconstruct the Great Man author, in this case, would be to deconstruct the individual. We would understand a book or story or poem as of a time and place, a product of a society, a unique moment in time, to be sure, but not the exemplary work of one person.

Working off @some_qualia 's interesting posts about DFW and The Great Man Theory of Literature, I'd like to do some thinking on how best to deconstruct that idea.

I think, I just want to write things that seem beautiful to me. And I want them to reach other people who need them. How do I do that?