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4.02 AVERAGE
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A lil too real to digest, especially as we are still in midst of the pandemic… god damn! But it was good
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Graphic: Racism
"Even when artists write manifestos, they are (hopefully) aware that their exigent tone is, finally, borrowed, only echoing and mimicking the urgency of the guerilla's demands, or the activist's protests, rather than truly enacting it. The people sometimes demand change. They almost never demand art" (21).
"There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do. They are no substitute for love . . . Love is not something to do, but something to be experienced, and something to go through—that must be why it frightens so many of us and why we so often approach it indirectly. Here is this novel, made with love. Here is this banana bread, made with love" (26).
"By comparing your relative privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside of your world—if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering is not relative; it is absolute. Suffering has an absolute relation to the individual—it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like 'privilege" (34).
Zadie Smiths' INTIMATIONS are 100x sharper and more poignant than most people's dissertations. I'd read them for days.
"There is no great difference between novels and banana bread. They are both just something to do. They are no substitute for love . . . Love is not something to do, but something to be experienced, and something to go through—that must be why it frightens so many of us and why we so often approach it indirectly. Here is this novel, made with love. Here is this banana bread, made with love" (26).
"By comparing your relative privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside of your world—if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering is not relative; it is absolute. Suffering has an absolute relation to the individual—it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like 'privilege" (34).
Zadie Smiths' INTIMATIONS are 100x sharper and more poignant than most people's dissertations. I'd read them for days.
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Despite it's small size, Zadie Smith packs a plethora of timely observations into this collection. The wide range of topics covered includes self expression, isolation, competitive suffering, contempt, Smith's local acquaintances, classism, family dynamics, and systemic racism. Like many great essayists, Smith never moralizes on the pages of Intimations. She raises many questions and then leaves them to be mulled over by the reader. After reading Intimations, I know that I will be thinking about the questions Smith posed for a long while.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Grief
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