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Gordon Wood’s Proust

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By Matthew Walther Verified, Peter Hitchens, Sam Kriss
| The Lamp Magazine
I never knew Gordon Wood well, or at all. During college, I was assigned The Radicalism of the American Revolution in an entry-level history class, like millions of other students. And of course I remember Wood’s name from the barroom scene in Good Will Hunting, where Matt Damon makes a self-important yuppie look like an idiot, a setup that apparently amused Wood greatly.
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A fire was in my head

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By Sam Kriss
| Numb at the Lodge
Three years ago, I took my girlfriend to Hebron to walk around the eerie ruins of the old city. It’s not a nice place. Wasteland of barbed wire and broken glass, into which the settlers have copy-pasted a few gaudy apartment buildings. She’d wanted to go to the Dead Sea and bob around in its famously tonic saline waters. I’d insisted on taking her to the heart of the occupied West Bank instead. I think it was, in the end, a piece of very classic Jewish male neuroticism.
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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

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By Sam Kriss
| Numb at the Lodge
It’s none of your business why, but I’ve been planning a party. The idea was to get some caterers in to cook something over live coals, so I went online to see what was available. The first company I found described itself like this: ‘We don’t just provide food—we create meaningful experiences. Our passion for traditional fire cooking allows us to offer something unique, authentic, and expertly crafted.
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