June 2010
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May 2010
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What is a philosopher? →
“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.”
– Frank Sinatra
The colon is the punctuation mark of expectation, and in case you don’t believe me:
Excerpts from Infinite Jest: Things You Will Learn...
That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.
That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused.
That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an abusable escape. That gambling can be an abusable escape, too, and work, shopping, and shoplifting, and sex, and abstention, and masturbation, and food, and exercise, and...
Two Poems by Raymond Carver
Fear
Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear of electrical storms. Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek! Fear of dogs I’ve been told won’t bite. Fear of anxiety! Fear of...
“The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6.41
lunette
wordjournal:
noun • /l(j)uːˈnɛt/ • In the guillotine, the circular hole which receives the neck of the victim.
