on plastic chairs, assault weapons and space robots
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In defense of the monobloc chair, and Todd Field’s Tár
25 Mar 23 | Vol 2 Issue 10 I had a friend who would say there is beauty in everything. It turns out that they weren't really my friend, which allows me to say I found this statement a tad pretentious, in wanting to sound profound and nonconformist, the desire to exhibit a sort of Kerouac beat wisdom. No one made a great maxim using the word "most", there is beauty in most things that don't really carry the same ring. Then again, orthodoxies and maxims are used as validations for violence and war. By 2009 approximately 100,000,000 Kalashnikov rifles had been manufactured. The world…
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