C’è un equivoco, in ciascuno di noi, anzi, una malattia: l’egoismo. Ma esiste anche una cura.
Siate dei pazienti di voi stessi, bravi, propositivi, anche un po’ disperati – cercate le medicine antiegoismo più efficaci, cercatele con energia, finché vivrete. Scoprite cosa vi rende più gentili ..
https://cctm.website/legoismo-e-inutile-elogio-della-gentilezza/

George Saunders

#bookstodon #literatur
Eine erschreckende Reise in die Welt von Dummheit und Lächerlichkeit, die von uns Besitz ergriffen hat, verdanken wir der Lektüre von #GeorgeSaunders #TagDerBefreiung (2024). Mehr darüber auf #PrekäreWelten:

https://prekaerewelten.org/2025/01/23/george-saunders-tag-der-befreiung-2024-rezension/

#ClimateDiary #literatur
Schnoddriger Tonfall, aber klare Worte:

„Memo von Mutter Natur: Ich kann eine ziemlich durchgeknallte Lady sein. Geht mir nicht auf den Zeiger …“ (#GeorgeSaunders, #TagDerBefreiung)

#Literatur #bookstodon #LiebesTagebuch

Nach der Lektüre von #GeorgeSaunders Kurzgeschichten in #TagDerBefreiung (2024) drängen sich folgende Fragen auf:

Wann werden wir aufhören, von den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Dystopien (der Zukunft) zu reden? Wann endlich werden wir entdecken, dass die Katastrophen schon längst rund um uns eingetreten sind? Die apokalyptischen Reiter sind längst unter uns.

#bookstodon #literatur
Eine der bedrückendsten und präzisesten Kurzgeschichten über die us-amerikanische Gesellschaft, die ich in letzter Zeit gelesen habe: #GeorgeSaunders #TagDerBefreiung (2024)

„Gesellschaft ist in der Überzahl, ist durchtränkt vom Selbstbewusstsein des Reichtums, hat keineswegs vor, zu verlieren, denn schon vor langem hat man hier beschlossen, sich mit Überfluss abzupolstern und jeglichen Verlust auf Abstand zu halten.“

‪Marcus Reynolds‬ ‪@marcusbs.bsky.social‬
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Join the People Reluctant To Kill for an Abstraction (#PRKA)

#GeorgeSaunders

#SLATE

The vibes have gotten awfully grim out there

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2004/08/manifesto.html

Ik luister regelmatig BoekenFM maar toen de Miranda July aflevering net goed en wel was begonnen, zette ik deze uit. Tampons en menopauze? Nope, not for me. Dacht ik.

Een tijdje later hadden we een feestje, en een deel van de boekenclub was over dit boek aan het praten. Ik haakte aan. Over welk boek hebben jullie het? Oh dat boek weer, nope not for me. Dacht ik.

Toch bleef ik dit boek maar […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/all-fours-miranda-july/

"I think, therefore I am wrong, after which I speak, and my wrongness falls on someone also thinking wrongly, and then there are two of us thinking wrongly, and, being human, we can't bear to think without action, which, having been taken, makes things worse."

#SundaySentence courtesy of George Saunders from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain.
#quote #GeorgeSaunders #epistemology

> I once heard the term "consensus reality" used to describe the set of things about the world that we all pretty much agree to be true.

Water is blue, birds sing, and so on. And although water is not simply blue and not all birds sing, and o call what some birds do "singing" approximates and undersells what they actually do, agreeing on this consensus view is natural and useful.

#buddhism #meditation #kindness #georgeSaunders
Check out Life and Work, from the Waking Up app:
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/CO515E3?source=content%20share&share_id=92EEB3DC&code=SCF32D115

Wow! I just read Lincoln in the Bardo by #GeorgeSaunders. I know I'm 7 years late to this party, but glad I showed up. Amazing....

Huh. I have never"read" a short story collection as an audiobook. Not sure how that would be. I guess I should just try it.

https://share.libbyapp.com/title/8840315

#GeorgeSaunders: “A story is a frank, intimate conversation between equals. We keep reading because we continue to feel respected by the writer. We feel her, over there on the production end of the process, imagining that we are as intelligent and worldly and curious as she is. Because she’s paying attention to where we are (to where she put us), she knows when we are ‘expecting a change’ or ‘feeling skeptical of this new development’ or ‘getting tired of this episode.” @bookstodon

"We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it), but thought also results from speech (as we grope, in words, toward meaning, we discover what we think)." — George Saunders — — — #GeorgeSaunders #quote #quotes #speech #thought #thinking #speaking

“Let’s at least set the smoke free.”
#IrenaRatushinskaya #GeorgeSaunders #BirdsongProject #ForTheBirds

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_pOtTLdpZCw&feature=share

My #ShortStory for March #FuriousFiction is written, proofread/edited and submitted. And the American writer and editing evangelist #GeorgeSaunders would be proud of me: I spent the afternoon editing my story, and I still changed two words before clicking Submit!

Just had the spine-tingling feeling I get when I've written the last line of the penultimate draft of my #FuriousFiction. Now, it's pure proofreading and editing. Because as #GeorgeSaunders says, "With diligent editing, you turn it into something better."

#writing #WritingCommunity #ShortStories

Link to Furious Fiction page on Writers' Centre website: https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/

Really enjoying George Saunders’s Liberation Day as my first read of the New Year. #GeorgeSaunders #LiberationDay
#AmReading