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I love Kant and Faulkner
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a gem, from Wikipedia's page on Karl Kraus
Als man sich gerade über die Beschießung von Shanghai durch die Japaner erregte und ich Karl Kraus bei einem der berühmten Beistrich-Problemen antraf, sagte er ungefähr: Ich weiß, daß das alles sinnlos ist, wenn das Haus in Brand steht. Aber solange das irgend möglich ist, muß ich das machen, denn hätten die Leute, die dazu verpflichtet sind, immer ( Read more... ) -
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"All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off"
It's fall break. I've been home since Friday, and I leave for Portland again on Sunday. Last week, midterm-week, I came down with the flu, and acquired extensions on two midterms -- amounting, essentially to three decently-lengthed papers. It's now Tuesday night, and I still have 20 or so pages to write on Derrida, De Man, Barthes, Cleanth Brooks, ( Read more... ) -
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I'm beginning to like Oliver Stone. His is the best sort of trash: high-production, kitschy non-fiction. It's like reading the New York Post.
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I've just deleted those deranged ramblings.
In lieu of that, I present a paraphrase, which, although sacrifices nuance in its categorical simplification of the chaos of my lived experience, may just touch on something fundamental: namely, I need a woman. -
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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=665015
Clinical diagnostic questions aside (which themselves arise from the pop culture of brain science), I love this phenomenon. It's organically generated cultural commentary.