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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020
On meaning
Association and causation are not meaning.
Meaning is perception and interpretation and dream.
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Thursday, February 06, 2020
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
Monday, February 03, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020
Stories (Morgenstern)
He has walked through puddles of ink and left footprints that formed stories in his wake that he did not turn around to read.
Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea
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Friday, January 24, 2020
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
What history is (James)
That's what history is: the story of everything that needn't have been like that.
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Monday, January 20, 2020
The synthesis (Gunn)
What could I do but seek the synthesis
As each man does, of what his nature is?
Thom Gunn, from "Merlin in the Cave: He Speculates without a Book"
Labels: poetry
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Friday, January 17, 2020
Wednesday, January 08, 2020
The age (Wilde)
We live in the age of the over-worked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
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Monday, January 06, 2020
Saturday, January 04, 2020
The cage
Perhaps the worst thing is to be smart enough to see the cage but not smart enough to escape it.
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Friday, January 03, 2020
Quick 2019 Summation
Books Read: 75
Poems Written: 203
The fewest poems I've written since 2011, but I had a book and a chapbook published, so I guess that's a good tradeoff!
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Life
Life is a process, constantly negotiated.
When you're enjoying yourself,
you're on the right track.
When you're miserable,
you've got it wrong.
Labels: thought
Sunday, December 29, 2019
The barbarians (Cavafy)
Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What’s the point of senators making laws now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.
C. P. Cavafy, from "Waiting for the Barbarians"
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Saturday, December 28, 2019
A story (Chambers)
Our species doesn't operate by reality. It operates by stories. Cities are a story. Money is a story. Space was a story, once. A king tells us a story about who we are and why we're great, and that story is enough to make us go kill people who tell a different story. Or maybe the people kill the king because they don't like his story and have begun to tell themselves a different one.
Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few
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