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The Beautiful and the Horrible

Lyle W Fass
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A dispatch from inside the contradiction: where beauty and horror coexist.

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Side Characters

One of the most quietly brutal things people do is treat other human beings as side characters in the movie of their own life. They do not always do it with obvious cruelty. Usually they do it casually, almost politely, which is why it take...

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The Archive

People love to say that the longest relationships in our lives are the deepest. I am no longer sure that is true. I think the longest relationships are often just the most crowded. They have the most history in them, the most old evidence,...

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The Stoop

We had a stoop.

That sounds almost mythological now, like the opening line of a movie made before the internet flattened everything into one endless indoor light. But it was real. Friday night, 8:30, the stoop. That was the plan. Just a pl...

18 days ago
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When the Praise Comes Late

I get praised a lot now, and I still do not really know how to receive it.

The praise is real. The work is real. The reaction is real. Hundreds of thousands of people on Threads, now thousands on Substack, read what I write and say things...

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Why Do People Simp for Billionaires?

We are living through Gilded Age levels of inequality, maybe worse in the ways that matter most, and one of the strangest features of this era is that millions of ordinary people defend them with the fervor of medieval peasants protecting t...

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    Writer, wine importer, and reluctant oracle of the American collapse. I talk politics, power, paranoia, and sometimes peaches. Threads brought the audience. The voice sharpened when the world went sideways. Now I’m here to go long.

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