Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Sour Great Apes

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

Monday, 10 January 2011

Sunday, 9 January 2011

Pre-emptive Strike

An apple a day keeps 3 doctors away for 8 hours.

Punctuality

The early worm is eaten by a bird.

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

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

The Opposite Of Espionage

Create all the happiness you are able to create;
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
— Jeremy Bentham

Climate Change

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
— Juvenal

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Fuscoferuginous

Fancy Tickling

knismesis — light tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling

The Smell Of Rain On Dry Ground

Iconicity

hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian —
pertaining to extremely long words

Psithurism

Interfenestration

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

Sole Parent

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
— Æschylus

Friday, 7 January 2011

Oculoplania

Stillness

Mental Lexicon

apodyopsis — the act of mentally undressing someone
gymnophoria — the sensation that someone is mentally undressing you

Præternatural

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Bright Idea

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

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Wiseguy

Cleverness is not wisdom.
— Euripides

The Self-Made Man

No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rehears All

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me,
because I'd like to hear it again.
— Groucho Marx