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"You can’t decide whether to fear being roasted alive inside it — sacrificed by fire to someone else’s obscure gods, like Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (1973) — or to duck beneath its belly during a rain shower, into the safety of a den. The ambiguity is essential."
From Grayson Perry to Boom Boom
“In our diamantes and stilettos, we are anticipating the end of the world – and for many, dressing up the class ladder is the closest we’re going to get to its cushioning privilege when the tough really gets going.”
Why a new kind of literary ritual has taken root in London
“On the one hand, praise for these events is abundant. But so too are feelings of being on edge, self-conscious, and uncertain.”
"It is manipulative for men like Sam Altman to deny that AI development is not about sexual projection. GPT-4o and ‘Sky’ are merely attempts to create an ideal vocal feminine beauty who will only ever say what her male owner wants her to."
"In our anachronistic age, youth is the highest currency. And, just as the rich dodge tax, so too are they able to dodge mortality – the outward signs of it, at least."