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Vita Contemplativa

Sam Jennings

Premonitions and reckonings. Orpheus and Eros. An antidote to positivity.

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Arguing with the NYT's Songwriter List

Hello readers, if you haven’t already, please do check out this recent conversation I had with the great Henry Begler over at A Good Hard Stare (and subscribe: it’s genuinely one of the finest Substacks we have); then yet another conservati...

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A Brief List of Things The Internet is Like

Magritte, La condition humaine (1935)

About a year ago, I wrote a post titled “Some Ways of Thinking About the Internet.” In it, I mused about a few vague aspects of the internet I felt were under-examined, or perhaps just lacked real meta...

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Spring Sonata

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The year it was an endless succession
Of hills I climbed or couldn’t climb, and yet
In my mind it is already April,
And in my heart it is alr...
a month ago
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Doing Irony

It’s like rain on your wedding day

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A few weeks ago, no less a personage than Fredrik deBoer, the great Substackian conflagramus himself, accused me—in the year of our lord 2026—of “Doing Irony” after I engaged with his post. I present...

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Why We Write

Thus walked we, amongst lily words and gilt phrases,

In the mornings I would teach her what God’s praise is:

Lord of plants, animals, Nature in her phases,

And man, like a god, the supreme.

- Percy Griffiths Smith, The Ruin of Florinda...

3 months ago
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