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May 10

The Other Currencies

Terms, conditions and the learning requirements for the human mind.

The Other Currencies

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Apr 23

The Ceiling You Call a Floor

Are you actually grounded or just, you know, diminished?

The Ceiling You Call a Floor

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Apr 18

We Are So Here

A transmission across an unremarkable distance. 88 years.

We Are So Here

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Apr 17

The Texture of Stillness

Solitude, the mind’s slow education, and the interior made habitable

The Texture of Stillness

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Apr 14

The Personality Hire

On being the most interesting person in every room you never asked to perform in

The Personality Hire

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Feb 20

Not a Man-Hater. Just Opinionated.

Being present in someone else’s world without losing my own center.

Not a Man-Hater. Just Opinionated.

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Jan 11

Hello, Old Friend

On broken optimism and living life without illusions.

Hello, Old Friend

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Nov 25, 2025

The Cognitive Weight of Literature Consumption

The lie of “relaxing with a book” and why society mistakes intellectual consumption for emotional release.

The Cognitive Weight of Literature Consumption

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Nov 21, 2025

The Perfect Diagnosis of Charles McGill

How Better Call Saul Delivered One of Television’s Most Accurate Portraits of OCD.

The Perfect Diagnosis of Charles McGill

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Nov 20, 2025

The Male Self-Help Industrial Complex

A tragic anthology of modern masculinity and society’s slow-burning catastrophe, told in twelve neat chapters.

The Male Self-Help Industrial Complex

Oresta Martin

Oresta Martin

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27 | Intl’ Relations Major | Food enthusiast (for the most part) | Love writing about everything, and anything. | Have fun reading :) @oreculinaire on Instagram

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