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What is the expression—believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see? I’ve made references to capitalism throughout these essays, and how I think it’s bad. Big whoop. You might be sympathetic to this worldview, it might make some kind of sense to you. And yet, we…
Thomas Wells
Mar 6
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(3). puzzling
Often, when you find yourself in a psychiatric facility, they give you a puzzle to work on. This is, of course, after a cop takes away all your…
Thomas Wells
Feb 22
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(2). trash culture
Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as…
Thomas Wells
Feb 8
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(1). my father is chess
My father is chess. I make up the rules as I go along. It was the earlier days of the internet, and he had discovered that he could find the thin Avalon…
Thomas Wells
Jan 29
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love and other games (introduction)
Note: Over the coming weeks, I’ll be posting the entirety of a manuscript I’ve been working on for several years. It is an essay collection about board…
Thomas Wells
Jan 19
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the prophet
Mental illness is what we call it when sensitivity lies supine, exposed to the horrors of civilization. It requires enormous insensitivity, feigned or…
Thomas Wells
Nov 11, 2022
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moisturize me
Marypat always pays me the finest of compliments, which means more because she’s a charming person with an interesting name. Or does it mean less? Nah…
Thomas Wells
Sep 18, 2022
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A puzzle
The first thing I see is one of those oceanic feeling mega dumpsters. Throw yourself in, or, at the very least, throw some bit of detritus over the…
Thomas Wells
Sep 7, 2022
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Board games and bad faith.
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