Behind The Selador
Sam Ballantyne, T.W.B.Essays designed to entertain me and hopefully some others along the way
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| Issues | 138 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Graham Greene’s Ways Of Escape
People have their way, or ways, of escape; for British writer and journalist Graham Greene, he was the latter: a person of ways; moreover, his ways aligned: writing, travelling, substance abuse, and promiscuous sex - all ways connected like...
Reading Does Not Automatically Equal Intelligence
In the 1997 film Good Will Hunting (starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams and Minnie Driver), there’s a scene, roughly one-quarter of the way into the film, that perfectly encapsulates the idea of this essay: that reading does no...
Skull Lightning And A Slate-Blue Suicide
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts On Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means by William T Vollmann (Quotes of Note #4)
WARNING: This post discusses suicide. Please do not read this if you’re not in the headspace to do so.
Books Worth Reading, Vol. 8
VIOLENCE
TL;DR
1. Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic by James Gilligan (1996)
2. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections by Slavoj Žižek (2007)
Books About Violence
For some reason, in 2026, I have read (and...
I Want To Know All Of You And More
There are two ways, one way spoken, one way unspoken, for a parent to withhold damning information from their child:
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the spoken, “I’ll tell you when you’re older”;
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the unspoken, “I’ll tell him/her when insert name here is dead”...
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