you can't make longposts

i went to the city of Curitiba. this makes it three states i've visited in Brazil in total (Santa Catarina [my home state], Rio Grande do Sul [though i was like 3 years old or something when i went], Paraná [this one]), all in the southern region.





my impression of Paraná before was that it was kind of a cultureless limbo place because you don't hear much about Paraná. Rio Grande do Sul has the most culture (big gaucho culture). Santa Catarina was in second place, i guess. it was a wrong impression: there are a lot of cool things and cool people (maybe) to see and meet in Curitiba. maybe that's because it's the capital of the state, but in my opinion Florianópolis (the capital of SC) is kind of boring (?)



i took most of the photos here with my 3DS camera. this is the first photo i took:



looks cold. and a bit russian.





this is the from the Passeio Público park. it had carps in the water. there were flowers, and birds in cages (scarlet ibises and macaws, parakeets). didn't take many photos here, but it is a nice spot for a stroll.









one of the big tourist spots is the Museu Oscar Niemeyer. it reminded me of an UFO. the photo makes it look sort of like that one I WANT TO BELIEVE poster.







you may know Niemeyer as the guy who designed Brasília. his biggest influence was Le Corbusier, but his flavor of modernist architecture has a lot more curves compared to the brutalist architecture of the former. outside of his architecture, Niemeyer is also a somewhat controversial figure in Brazil for being a socialist (and an atheist in a deeply religious country).



i didn't go to the MOC proper (the UFO-looking building curitibans nickname "the eye"), and i'm not even sure if you can right now; it's kind of confusing. i descended the ramp and visited the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná. i'm not sure if Oscar Niemeyer was the one who designed the MAC, but having to walk 200 meters to get to the entrance of the museum (according to google maps at least) reminds me a lot of Brasília's car-centric design.



the following photos are all from the contemporary art museum:





cute, weirdly guroi.



the low reso

I have been reading a lot this year, mainly due to my English course. My last readings were the Poetics of Aristotle and Sophocles' Three Theban Plays (the Fagles translation, which seemed kind of oversimplified to me). Outside of coursework, I was reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I thought about reading the Summa Theologica yesterday, but it is too long (4000+ pages) for a non-Christian like me. The Five Ways read a bit like a leap of logic, as if St. Thomas Aquinas is taking God for granted and using a higher being as a way to explain the unexplained, but I don't know as I haven't read the compendium.

I have been looking for something like this for the past few months. It feels as if every site now is some sort of social media. I don't care about that, what happened to the simple blogs?

I tried sites like tumblr but when you actually blogpost there it feels out of place, as if it were a faux pas. And others like Medium and Substack or whatever new site's out now feel too formal.

I'm not a fan of social media.

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