“Vasari's lives as an artist, like an account of like 16th century Italian artists. And one of the ones she's studying is Masaccio, and his entire life pretty much, I'm pretty”
The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects
Books mentioned in Why No One Should Watch Netflix – Riva Tez
From How I Write · 2023-10-18
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“and the entire semester was on the, like, 300 pages of Max Weber, like basically all about The, the Protestant work ethic and I was like, this is interesting.”
“Like, read Bukowski. I read The Tropic of Cancer the other day. You read Tropic of Cancer, it's like, it goes from extreme explicitness, it's like a train of thought of like a man.”
“American Psycho, it was also like an edgy book, right, like it glorifies violence, all this kind of stuff, but it's fiction. Mark Marr is also writing fiction, but he's such”
“If you were gonna live, if you were a mortal. There's a great book actually called Alan by Alan Harrington called The Immortalists. You just talks about what society would look”
“People aren't like, going, reading poetry. I gave copies of, uh, Domino Elegies to most of my friends. And a lot of them said, were like, really”
“the war. But there's a guy named C. P. Snow who wrote a book called The Two Cultures. And what he was trying to get at, not a book essay, what he's trying to get at in this”
“books? Like, think about like, um, uh, um, William Morris did the Canterbury Tales. Like, have you seen these books? Oh, it's just so beautiful. It was like 19th century revival”
“be an individualistic person. And that's why like everyone hates. Ayn Rand so much. Like, why do people hate Ayn Rand so much? It's like a nice Russian woman who like, her”