
Salman Kureishy
@SalmanKureishy
wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me - Freud.
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Agree, currently reading: also a podcast here with the author x.com/empirepoduk/st…
For friends keen to understand the tragic mess of a world we live in, strongly recommend this book which shows the appalling role of the French and British empires (occasionally Italy too) and the total lack of accountability today

I'm raising my probability estimate for a US-Iran war to above 90% again, and it may happen very soon. Something very meaningful happened in the last 10 days or so. It looks to me like Trump was given the impression that he was free to sign a deal with Iran, but then, all at…
अपना रिश्ता ज़मीं से ही रक्खो कुछ नहीं आसमान में रक्खा - जौन एलिया
❛ It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. German writer W. G. Sebald, born #OTD in 1944. Happy Sunday everyone! Time to grab a book...

There comes an hour when, for each of us, an inconsolable realisation enters our soul, tearing it apart. It is in the light of that hour, that we should all talk to each other, love each other and laugh together as much as possible. * Christian Bobin, 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 ♡

Gustav Klimt, Madre con due figli (dettaglio)

Is Chuck Berry the true king of Rock and Roll?
Reframe your thoughts n prompts, into factual, data oriented questions: “What is” rather “what do you think”. For my recent review of Nietzsche and his admiration for the Persian poet Hafez, Chat GPT and DeepSeek pulled up excellent material and references and translation
AI doesn’t think. In fact, it’s meant to stop you from thinking.
Lovely. Here is how Deep Seek translated this

I opened Bedil’s divan and found this priceless verse: آخر در انتظار تو خاکم بہ باد رفت یعنی غبار خاطر ایام ہم شدم Waiting for you I became dust and was blown by the wind That is, I too became the time’s dust of thoughts #Bedil
This is how Tarantino came up with the iconic Pulp Fiction dance 💃 🕺
Neil degrees Tyson Explaining the "God of the Gaps".
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein Born on this day, in 1889 thanks to @style_minds

I prefer this later one, incorporating and enlarging the themes covered in Gödel, Escher Bach

If you want read one book, read this one ✍️

I don’t know who needs to see this but

मातम का नाम ह़ाकिम ने जश्न कर दिया है रोती है अब रिआया ताली बजा-बजा कर - राजेश रेड्डी
George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Billy Joel and more performing together (1988) They don't make artists like this anymore. Pure talent.
Agree, he’s brilliant, but wonder if @NewYorker will publish him after his book on Gaza

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