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T. S. Eliot’s Muse

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15 pointsapollinaire11 comments

> He wanted her to be remembered always as the Beatrice to his Dante, the moral force behind his religious conversion, and the inspiration behind some of his most beautiful poems.

And the Regine to his Søren, perhaps.

Not quite as TS Eliot was heavily influenced by Dante which shows in his poems/writings. Eliot considered Dante to be the greatest writer. So if there was any comparison Eliot would have been comfortable with, it would have been to Dante.

I can read it just fine with javascript disabled, except that I get only text and no pictures.

Edited to add: I also cleared cookies etc.

Oddly enough, if I disable javascript and/or cookies, I get a completely blank white page instead. These tricks do work on a lot of other sites, though.

I'm using Brave Version 1.17.75 Chromium: 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (x86_64) (with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger enabled) on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 - if that helps.

Just checked on my Windows 10 machine, and Brave, similarly configured (disabled javascript, same add-ons) also displays the New Yorker article - again, text only.

Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?

This may sound very low-tech, but if you stop loading the page as soon as you open it, you should be fine. For me, that's refreshing the page and spamming the ESC button.

Holy shit it works!

You can disable Scripts loaded from www.newyorker.com in uMatrix.

You can also do that in basically any vanilla user agent (for chrome, click the lock in the URL bar -> site settings -> disable javascript -> refresh page).

I'm not a zealot, but I like to browse with javascript default to blocked, and only if I notice a site not behaving correctly will I enable javascript. Side benefit is killing most begging-for-subscription overlays.

Just hit Reader in Firefox before the payroll kicks in.

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