Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Pomo Sapiens
We don't understand
he must be clever
— Peter Hammill 'The Jargon King'
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
— Albert Camus
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Sunday, 9 January 2011
An Age Of Surfaces
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made.
— Groucho Marx
If you can fake that, you've got it made.
— Groucho Marx
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Groucho Marx,
Oscar Wilde
A Remedy Of Errors
Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
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Groucho Marx,
William Shakespeare
The Opposite Of Espionage
Create all the happiness you are able to create;
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
— Jeremy Bentham
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham,
Philosophy
Climate Change
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
— Juvenal
— Juvenal
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Juvenal,
Philosophy
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Fancy Tickling
knismesis — light tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling
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Definitions
Metaphors
Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts,
then you are in trouble.
— Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts,
then you are in trouble.
— Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell
Labels:
Joseph Campbell,
Mythology
Friday, 7 January 2011
Mental Lexicon
apodyopsis — the act of mentally undressing someone
gymnophoria — the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you
gymnophoria — the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you
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Definitions
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Consumerism
In 1987, the number of shopping centres in the US surpassed the number of high schools.
Dwindling education budgets have seen advertising introduced into classrooms, exposing 7 million students — a third of them teenagers — to two minutes of commercials every morning on Channel One. The advertisers pay for computers, video monitors and other electronic stuff the government can't afford. Not surprising then that consumerism is ingrained from an early age in a headspace where education should be permitted to prevail.
— Doug Anderson
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Doug Anderson
The Self-Made Man
No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Philosophy,
Seneca
Rehears All
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me,
because I'd like to hear it again.
— Groucho Marx
because I'd like to hear it again.
— Groucho Marx
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Groucho Marx
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