16. Little Deaths/Delights

Marucs Aurelius and Pamela Anderson walk into a bar..

LITTLE DEATHS

• Unlearning thought patterns

• The obsession with and abandonment of America’s cultural sweethearts - Jodie Foster, Pamela Anderson, Josephine Baker perhaps ??

• Generational dissonance - your values do not have to be mine. We grew up in different contexts

LITTLE DELIGHTS

• Love (Sex) & Literature #1 -

  Anderson II
  read some of in the room fs

• Auctioned Sentience -

  Mar Wolf
  takes us through a dreamy haze of existential awakening

• Sunshine - get a little window crystal for rainbows in your room. I got this idea from my grandmother

FROM THE HOT LITERATI UNIVERSE

BOOK CLUB

We’re reading The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir. We’re meeting Wednesday evenings at 8:30 pm ET. We’re on week 2. Sign up here

ASK HOT LITERATI

This week I’ll be answering :

• “how did you get confidence with your writing? i feel like my writing is so juvenile and technically incorrect but idk how to improve aside from practice”

• “Do you have a guide on how to study the Bible please”

submit a question here

LOVE SEX (&) LITERATURE

New! Sex and Relationships advice from Hot Literati ‘24 writer and family/couples therapistAnderson II. This week he’ll be answering.

He’ll be answering:

• "gossip guy - i just started seeing someone (3 weeks in) after i'd sworn off men for a while. he has bpd and audhd, but he is very interesting and very sweet and definitely seems genuine. things are moving fairly quickly, but i'm trying to be the levelheaded one and i think he is adjusting to not taking things too fast. i like him. i feel very comfortable around him. i like learning about him. i want to keep seeing other people since i'm exploring my sexuality, but i want to let things be natural between me and him too...i can see this being a very mutually beneficial and healthy bond. i can sense he might eventually just want monogamy, but he expressed as long as he feels special and cared for, he doesn't really mind. how do i establish healthy boundaries at the beginning of a relationship, where everything feels sweet? how does one grow in love, and not just fall in it?”

submit a question for Anderson here

WHAT IS NYC READING

• The Bible on the D train - he was really into it he was reading it while going up the stairs + everything

• Marcus Aurelius Meditations on the F

BACK MATTER

• Marina Ambromavic Cleanser

• Quotes from Belle du Jour

• Hot Literati ‘24 Playlist (working playlist)

• Lenten Guilt by

  Bella Ve

• Book recs by

  Victoria

  as always, share some of your death/delights in comments if you want.

have a fun week,

hailo🆒🔦🆒