lectioris brevis |
while the philosophy teacher promised a brief lecture, he was felled by his affliction with circumstantiality. Namely, not knowing the difference between relevant and irrelevant details when telling a...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:28:00 GMT |
i'm not dead then? |
the ridiculousness of taking philosophy and advanced poetry in the same term...just occured to me. i suppose the subconscious planned on its inspiration....or maybe my laziness left me with very few c...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:54:00 GMT |
plot points |
seriously i have no idea where to start. if i were to tell a story, what would be the point? who should be a character? how should they find themselves falling down the stairs? when should the hero en...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:59:00 GMT |
colloquials |
centuries of philosophyin the toilet - literallybut also in the figurative sense peeling off the pink magic hat coverof a good idea presentingan evolution of thought as t...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:59:00 GMT |
night sounds: outside breaking |
the groundcrackling, rending in tiny burstssnapping fissures of reliefshivers through an earthglazed over the soundof nature rent by the weightof misplaced windsice building on limbs unaccustomedthe r...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:40:00 GMT |
response inspires more than independent thought |
versality makes our language awesome, but it also makes it frustrating. we have over a million words with their own precise dictionary meanings so that we could accurately describe what we think or fe...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:18:00 GMT |
someone said the snake took them |
who's still with me? i'll post another book quote this weekend. or maybe something i wrote. doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:59:00 GMT |
chasing vermeer |
I have never heard of any standard, in any religion, philosophy, science, or complication of household affairs that could not be made to fit any requirement. We fit standards to judgements, or break a...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:39:00 GMT |
dueling roosevelts |
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. The things that will destroy America ar...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:30:00 GMT |
personality traits |
"He practices an ingenious technique of self deception: he believes that if he is frank about his motives, if he tells the truth, this will clear him of moral obligations. He has the insincerity...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:44:00 GMT |
