A Cruel Readers Thesis | Sunday Miscellany | An Especially Nerdy Installment @acruelreadersthesis5868 | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 8 minutes ago.
No playlist this week.

Forgot to mention that I finally bailed on Frank Zollner's book about Leonardo da Vinci. I realized that I was only making myself finish it for the sake of being a completionist, but I wasn't enjoying it at all. Perhaps I'll try out Walter Isaacson's biography.

Books discussed:
- About Behaviorism by B.F. Skinner
- A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
- Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
- Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad


Films discussed:
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 (dir: Aaron Sorkin)
- Gattaca (dir: Andrew Niccol)
- Mirai (dir: Mamoru Hosoda)
- Wolf Children (dir: Mamoru Hosoda)
- Ammonite (dir: Francis Lee)
- God's Own Country (dir: Francis Lee)
- Dead Poets Society (dir: Peter Weir)




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