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On The Road is a story of acedia, ultimately.
Trouble is that the narrator's sloth is the author's, so much so that it blurs the book's vision. Benny Profane was more real, to me. -
advice from don b is disseminated in the form of an answer to a question about don b
This is neat.Brian Kiteley: Barthelme had no set reading list that I can recall. He simply said, "Read all of Western philosophy, for starters, then read some history, anthropology, history of science." I've read a reaction that a Johns Hopkins class had to this command (which was similar to the one he made to us). A student there said, "But we ( Read more... ) -
oh craigslist
Ad in apts/housing: "Free room and board for attractive female".
Uh.
Awesome! What could possibly go wrong? -
tonto
That's Anthony Braxton's kid, by the way, on vocals and guitar.
Things like this make me think that picking up the electric guitar instead of a horn or piano was perhaps not a fatal error afterall. -
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The thing about doing routine housekeeping on the "Manage Message Settings" page is that, speaking as a philosopher with a particular interest in the nature of the relationship of logical to metaphysical possibility, I actually really do want to be notified if "someone comments on a deleted entry in some_community".
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i find this incident both funny and weirdly fascinating
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Richard Lewis Ludwig, 54, was in town to watch his son’s baseball game when he found a credit card on the ground outside a mall ( Read more... )
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