Bad movie I have The Complete First Season Wagon Train 1957

Lucky Blue Smith for Brunello Cucinelli FW24

ANDREW GARFIELD and Cory Michael Smith at the Zegna Dinner Show.

Jodie Turner Smith is seen heading to The Gucci show.

Jodie Turner Smith @ Gucci MFW SS24

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RIP. While I've read two of his novels—The Unbearable Lightness of Being toward the end of high school and Immortality toward the end of grad school—it was his theory of the novel, encountered mid-college, that moved and influenced me most. Two of the 13 paragraphs in the Times obit are devoted to misogyny in Kundera's fiction—that his prime accuser in the '80s is now a gender-critical feminist scourging the "narcissistic rage of trans activists" earns him no credit and perhaps should not—and for similar scrutiny of the way the word "Europe" functions in the book I am about to quote in memoriam, see here. To subject a novelist to an ideological trial on the day of his death—this might be emblematic of the totalitarian desire for religious certainty and political purity, for "apodictic and dogmatic discourse," to which Kundera opposed the ethical essence of the novel as a form committed to "inquiry."

As God slowly departed from the seat whence he had directed the universe and its order of values, distinguished good from evil, and endowed each thing with meaning, Don Quixote set forth from his house into a world he could no longer recognize. In the absence of the Supreme Judge, the world suddenly appeared in its fearsome ambiguity; the single divine Truth decomposed into myriad relative truths parceled out by men. Thus was born the world of the Modern Era, and with it the novel, the image and model of that world. To take, with Descartes, the thinking self as the basis of everything, and thus to face the universe alone, is to adopt an attitude that Hegel was right to call heroic. To take, with Cervantes, the world as ambiguity, to be obliged to face not a single absolute truth but a welter of contradictory truths (truths embodied in imaginary selves called characters), to have as one's only certainty the wisdom of uncertainty, requires no less courage. What does Cervantes' great novel mean? Much has been written on the question. Some see in it a rationalist critique of Don Quixote's hazy idealism. Others see it as a celebration of that same idealism. Both interpretations are mistaken because they both seek at the novel's core not an inquiry but a moral position. Man desires a world where good and evil can be clearly distinguished, for he has an innate and irrepressible desire to judge before he understands. Religions and ideologies are founded on this desire. They can cope with the novel only by translating its language of relativity and ambiguity into their own apodictic and dogmatic discourse. They require that someone be right: either Anna Karenina is the victim of a narrow-minded tyrant, or Karenin is the victim of an immoral woman; either K. is an innocent man crushed by an unjust Court, or the Court represents divine justice and K. is guilty. This "either-or" encapsulates an inability to tolerate the essential relativity of things human, an inability to look squarely at the absence of the Supreme Judge. This inability makes the novel's wisdom (the wisdom of uncertainty) hard to accept and understand.

—Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel (1986), trans. Linda Asher

Cory Michael Smith @ Tod's Spring/Summer '24 show Milan, June 2023

Screaming at this defense of “if I meant to hit him he would have died”

Fantasías: Música de vihuela

Luys Milán (c. 1500-c. 1561): "Libro de Música de Vihuela" Luys de Narvaéz (c. 1500-1552): "Los seys libros del Delphin" Alonso Mudarra (c. 1510-1580): "Tres libros de música en cifras"

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Hopkinson Smith (Vihuela)

ANDREW GARFIELD, Cory Michael Smith, Chris Pine and Mads Mikkelsen at the Zegna Spring/Summer 2024 Fashion Show during the Milan Fashion Week menswear.

Jodie Turner Smith heading to Moschino MFW Fall 2023 

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