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@coffeehousepress.bsky.social Holy cow this book is so howling good I can't breathe. #lesserruins #markhaber
June 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social Holy cow this book is so howling good I can't breathe. #lesserruins #markhaber
#OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman will start April 1st! Give a like to join the group read. This will be followed by #Haber25 #LesserRuins #MarkHaber
On this episode of the “Mining the Dalkey Archive: Irish Edition,” Tom Flynn joined Chad Post and Vincent Francone to discuss The Third Policeman, one of Flann O'Brien’s masterpieces.
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"The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien
Listen now | Yes, the story about Lost is in here.
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March 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman will start April 1st! Give a like to join the group read. This will be followed by #Haber25 #LesserRuins #MarkHaber
I must face the long-postponed moment of finally learning how to silence the smartphone because an exemplary work...aims to embody the spirit of Montaigne, unthinkable w the constant assault of the smartphone, the most ironic name for an obj in human history.
-Mark Haber, LesserRuins
#sundaysentence
-Mark Haber, LesserRuins
#sundaysentence
May 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I must face the long-postponed moment of finally learning how to silence the smartphone because an exemplary work...aims to embody the spirit of Montaigne, unthinkable w the constant assault of the smartphone, the most ironic name for an obj in human history.
-Mark Haber, LesserRuins
#sundaysentence
-Mark Haber, LesserRuins
#sundaysentence
Alfred Polgar who'd famously said the Viennese coffeehouse's sole purpose was to kill time before it killed them.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Alfred Polgar who'd famously said the Viennese coffeehouse's sole purpose was to kill time before it killed them.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
she spoke of Elias Canetti and Crowds and Power, and had I ever read Crowds and Power, she asked, because Crowds and Power must surely be read by anyone interested in the barbarity of human nature,
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
she spoke of Elias Canetti and Crowds and Power, and had I ever read Crowds and Power, she asked, because Crowds and Power must surely be read by anyone interested in the barbarity of human nature,
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
The point being to create ones work despite the noise, not to make art about the noise or purported art that
chronicles the inability to make art because of the noise itself
and then call that the art.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
chronicles the inability to make art because of the noise itself
and then call that the art.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The point being to create ones work despite the noise, not to make art about the noise or purported art that
chronicles the inability to make art because of the noise itself
and then call that the art.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
chronicles the inability to make art because of the noise itself
and then call that the art.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
Mark Haber's Lesser Ruins starts today! #Haber25 #LesserRuins readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/m...
Mark Haber’s Lesser Ruins starts today! #Haber25 #LesserRuins
I retired, or was fired, depending on who you ask, I nursed my now-dead wife, and, not unlike Montaigne who-bereaved due to the death of his father, retired to his estate outside Bordeaux to devote…
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April 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Mark Haber's Lesser Ruins starts today! #Haber25 #LesserRuins readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/m...
Coffee preferences tell as much about the person as their tastes in fashion and literature and I consider these things and more
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Coffee preferences tell as much about the person as their tastes in fashion and literature and I consider these things and more
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
I've always loved coffee black but also enjoy it with a hint of milk
or cream, but never sugar, sugar a moral crime, I'd tell my now-
dead wife, sugar in one's coffee a sign of moral decrepitude and
waning ethics
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
or cream, but never sugar, sugar a moral crime, I'd tell my now-
dead wife, sugar in one's coffee a sign of moral decrepitude and
waning ethics
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I've always loved coffee black but also enjoy it with a hint of milk
or cream, but never sugar, sugar a moral crime, I'd tell my now-
dead wife, sugar in one's coffee a sign of moral decrepitude and
waning ethics
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
or cream, but never sugar, sugar a moral crime, I'd tell my now-
dead wife, sugar in one's coffee a sign of moral decrepitude and
waning ethics
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
the Café Griensteidl in particular, frequented by the brightest thinkers of 1930s Vienna, and I found myself writing about the smell of the Viennese coffeehouses and the architecture of the Viennese coffeehouses, especially Café Griensteidl
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
the Café Griensteidl in particular, frequented by the brightest thinkers of 1930s Vienna, and I found myself writing about the smell of the Viennese coffeehouses and the architecture of the Viennese coffeehouses, especially Café Griensteidl
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
...in short, I said, literature, literature with a capital L, reflects the human heart and, pardon my French, but the human heart is a goddamn mess
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
...in short, I said, literature, literature with a capital L, reflects the human heart and, pardon my French, but the human heart is a goddamn mess
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
...that indeed the greatest artists throughout history had been tormented by insecurity and self-doubt and why would I be any different, I thought, and wasn't my self-doubt perhaps a sign of unrealized genius?
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
...that indeed the greatest artists throughout history had been tormented by insecurity and self-doubt and why would I be any different, I thought, and wasn't my self-doubt perhaps a sign of unrealized genius?
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
because literature, I ranted, is a chaotic devotion, horribly disheveled, literature is diving head-first into the maelstrom, it's lighting oneself on fire, I proclaimed, it's covering oneself with a thousand leeches...
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
because literature, I ranted, is a chaotic devotion, horribly disheveled, literature is diving head-first into the maelstrom, it's lighting oneself on fire, I proclaimed, it's covering oneself with a thousand leeches...
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
Canetti understood, Canetti perceived the hordes of invisible dead because the invisible dead are everywhere, pleading with us to avenge the stupidity of their deaths, because it's sheer, unadulterated stupidity, the only explanation
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Canetti understood, Canetti perceived the hordes of invisible dead because the invisible dead are everywhere, pleading with us to avenge the stupidity of their deaths, because it's sheer, unadulterated stupidity, the only explanation
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
all of it troubled them, my
Iove of books, literature especially, that baffled my parents, because the practical purpose of literature is ineffable, hidden too,requiring an effort from the reader with no explanation or guaranteed outcome
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
Iove of books, literature especially, that baffled my parents, because the practical purpose of literature is ineffable, hidden too,requiring an effort from the reader with no explanation or guaranteed outcome
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
all of it troubled them, my
Iove of books, literature especially, that baffled my parents, because the practical purpose of literature is ineffable, hidden too,requiring an effort from the reader with no explanation or guaranteed outcome
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
Iove of books, literature especially, that baffled my parents, because the practical purpose of literature is ineffable, hidden too,requiring an effort from the reader with no explanation or guaranteed outcome
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
the antithesis of solitude & peace,the smartphone an adamant FU to solitude &peace the smartphone an invitation to join society even though I abhorred society because society was undeniably on a downward slope, inundated by mediocrity & half thoughts hindrances & interruptions
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
the antithesis of solitude & peace,the smartphone an adamant FU to solitude &peace the smartphone an invitation to join society even though I abhorred society because society was undeniably on a downward slope, inundated by mediocrity & half thoughts hindrances & interruptions
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
I always felt I had both coffee and Montaigne to thank for helping me escape mediocrity or, at the very least, instilling the desire to escape mediocrity, because in a sense coffee introduced me to myself, coffee confirmed the intuition of something other
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I always felt I had both coffee and Montaigne to thank for helping me escape mediocrity or, at the very least, instilling the desire to escape mediocrity, because in a sense coffee introduced me to myself, coffee confirmed the intuition of something other
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
when the world was a verdant meadow, opulent and rich, when the world, to quote Paz, was a gallery of sound, before I met my now-dead wife, before Marcel was born and those subsequent years of vexation and fatigue: fatherhood, husbandhood
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
when the world was a verdant meadow, opulent and rich, when the world, to quote Paz, was a gallery of sound, before I met my now-dead wife, before Marcel was born and those subsequent years of vexation and fatigue: fatherhood, husbandhood
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
the legendary Şehzade Roast, a bean long rumored to be the best-tasting and most robust coffee bean in the world, a bean endowed with the properties of a mythical potion, the Şehzade Roast reputedly enjoyed by the great shahs and oracles of the Safavids
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the legendary Şehzade Roast, a bean long rumored to be the best-tasting and most robust coffee bean in the world, a bean endowed with the properties of a mythical potion, the Şehzade Roast reputedly enjoyed by the great shahs and oracles of the Safavids
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
because a stupid person's knowledge is a negation of knowing, a willing disregard of knowing, a knowing in deficit and this affectation of knowing is the main ingredient of the most successfully stupid
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
because a stupid person's knowledge is a negation of knowing, a willing disregard of knowing, a knowing in deficit and this affectation of knowing is the main ingredient of the most successfully stupid
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
because stupidity is unrivaled,
unequivocally so, and my sculptures will do nothing more than acknowledge the stupidity and denounce the stupidity, no more than point out the fundamental and grotesque absurdity of stupidity, and perhaps that's enough.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
unequivocally so, and my sculptures will do nothing more than acknowledge the stupidity and denounce the stupidity, no more than point out the fundamental and grotesque absurdity of stupidity, and perhaps that's enough.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
because stupidity is unrivaled,
unequivocally so, and my sculptures will do nothing more than acknowledge the stupidity and denounce the stupidity, no more than point out the fundamental and grotesque absurdity of stupidity, and perhaps that's enough.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
unequivocally so, and my sculptures will do nothing more than acknowledge the stupidity and denounce the stupidity, no more than point out the fundamental and grotesque absurdity of stupidity, and perhaps that's enough.
#Haber25 #LesserRuins
those afraid of drinking
seven Turkish coffees in the middle of the afternoon because
coffee, strong coffee, I'd begun to believe, was a conduit to the
divine, and after my time at the Horner Institute and my friendship with Kleist I found myself changed. #Haber25 #LesserRuins
seven Turkish coffees in the middle of the afternoon because
coffee, strong coffee, I'd begun to believe, was a conduit to the
divine, and after my time at the Horner Institute and my friendship with Kleist I found myself changed. #Haber25 #LesserRuins
April 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
those afraid of drinking
seven Turkish coffees in the middle of the afternoon because
coffee, strong coffee, I'd begun to believe, was a conduit to the
divine, and after my time at the Horner Institute and my friendship with Kleist I found myself changed. #Haber25 #LesserRuins
seven Turkish coffees in the middle of the afternoon because
coffee, strong coffee, I'd begun to believe, was a conduit to the
divine, and after my time at the Horner Institute and my friendship with Kleist I found myself changed. #Haber25 #LesserRuins