Ewen's Newsletter - April 17, 2024
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Film: 8½ (1963)
Synopsis: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
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Book: The Idiot
About: Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.
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Music: It's Over
Artist: Kastomarin
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Reflections
Just because you are you are facing a lie doesn't mean the alternative is true. (Click here to share on Twitter/X)
All thoughts are not true. Only some thoughts are not a lie. (Click here to share on Twitter/X)
You are nothing other than your influences. (Click here to share on Twitter/X)
Longer Reflection
Something I’ve been reflecting on a lot lately is the idea of working towards doing nothing. The trap I see a lot of people fall into is just working non-stop, and I feel that we should be more deliberate with our actions. We work only on the things that we have to do for that day, and when it’s time to do nothing, we do nothing.
But also, while I suspect why most people don’t think this way and continue to give themselves work to do is because they don’t want to do nothing, as this’ll involve having to sit with themselves. We don’t want to face ourselves so we distract ourselves with work.
In my view, this is a trap. One doesn’t have to get out of this trap. No one ought to do anything. But I don’t want to play this game. Hence, why I have given myself the idiom of ‘working to nothing.’
Project Update
Exciting news! I have released a new book: The Shadow Stalker. You can learn more about it and read it here. Let me know what you think of it via @ewenmunro18.
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Giveaways
I have jointed two book giveaways that have started this week. You can check them out here:
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Ewen
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