A couple adore each other, immense affection, saintly, pure (needless to say, chaste) of the husband for his wife. But this man is a sadist and, besides the love for his wife, he has relations with whores, where he finds pleasure in soiling his own feelings. Finally, the sadist, always needing something stronger, comes to soil his wife in talking ( Read more... )

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Hemlock Available in the Faculty Lounge

By THOMAS CUSHMAN

Teaching evaluations have become a permanent fixture in the academic environment. These instruments, through which students express their true feelings about classes and professors, can make or break an instructor. What would students say if they had Socrates as a professor?
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( U. of California Sues the Family of Jacques Derrida Over the Noted Philosopher's Papers )

oxytocin? what the fuck? and karate? now, that's just fucking racist. i don't talk about karate that goddamn much, do i?

Finding yourself in a hole, at the botton of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, ( Read more... )

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