September 2011
24 posts
Matt Langer: First as parody, then as farce. →
langer:
Remember that episode of “The West Wing” when Sam’s ex-fiancée (“Hey is the reason you two didn’t get married because her name would have been Lisa Sherborne Seaborn?”) is doing a piece for Vanity Fair on the State of the Union and Sam calls Joey and Kenny over to explain the dials to Lisa and…
“But there is great advantage in the loneliness of suffering. What would happen...”
– Emil Cioran (from On the Heights of Despair)
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“In the years between his marriage in 1915 and the appearance of The Waste Land...”
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“The meaning of this history for anti-authoritarians today is that domination-...”
– Peter Gelderloos (The Rise of Hierarchy)
The face of fear is most definitely brown |... →
ontologicalterrorist:
Amber Ansari:
Walking around Covent Garden last Tuesday, I found myself nearly knocked over by a speeding police car with no sirens or lights down a small street. I thought it was strange: such hurry and no warning system.
As I reached Tesco in Covent Garden, I saw six heavily armed police officers surrounding some-one. I walked past and saw a small, middle aged,...
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“A few years ago, one of the great figures of contemporary biology, Ernst Mayr,...”
– Noam Chomsky, opening lines of Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
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“Because I really love her, because I want her to be happy— No, it...”
– Marcel Proust
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“‘My little tree, my little donkey, my mother, my brother, my country, my...”
– Marcel Proust
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“‘Whether we ask for them or not, give us good things, and keep evils from...”
– Plato
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“I unpin your flowers, I lift your hair, I tear off your jewels, I reach your...”
– Marcel Proust
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“‘But if you wish me to stay, you must send the other guests away.’...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Life is like this little sweetheart. We dream of it and we love it in dreaming...”
– Marcel Proust
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