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That's weird. I''ll probably start the lecture this weekend when I get some time off. I'll let you know if it actually works for me. If not I'll be pretty bummed. I did get a course on Buddhism to work though.
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Started working through The Decadent Reader again. There is so goddamn much in here but I've started working at a guest house which allows me plenty of time to sit around reading, so this is the perfect book to lug around.Comment
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I'm ~ 70 tiny iPhone pages deep into Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below, which is interesting for understanding the psychology of people who obsess over things like piano tuning or spiral seams on pants... + for many other reasons as well."He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."Comment
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The manipulated man by esther vilar
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I've wanted to order this one...it's been in my amazon cart for a week or two.Originally posted by croatoan View Post
Started working through The Decadent Reader again. There is so goddamn much in here but I've started working at a guest house which allows me plenty of time to sit around reading, so this is the perfect book to lug around.Comment
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Finished Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" today and am inundated by thoughts. Specifically, in regards to ethics, I am trapped in between Kant's ethics and utilitarianism. In regards to epistemology, I now analyze all thoughts, splitting them into pure a priori or a posteriori knowledge. Anyway, I highly recommend the reading (it is not simply a regurgitation of Hume, though Hume did awake Kant from his "dogmatic slumber").“The noise of the bars, the grit of the sidewalks,
The decaying plane trees shedding leaves in the dark,
The omnibus a hurricane of rattling iron and mud,
That screeches, badly aligned on its wheels,
And slowly rolls its green and yellow eyes,
Workers going to their club, smoking clay pipes
Under the noses of the police officers,
Dripping roofs, sweating walls, slippery pavement,
Cracked asphalt, streams filling the gutter,
That’s my road—with heaven at the end.”
-- Paul VerlaineComment
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New Pynchon is pretty hilarious so far. NYC in the year 2000 hasn't seemed so real since I was actually living through it.Comment
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As I'm sitting in class, I have Graphic Designers: Europe Vol. 1 in my hand
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I didn't expect Tropic of Capricorn to be that much better than Cancer (least for me). First few 20 or so pages totally hooked me, and it was all over..Comment
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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa just arrived. Can't wait to start but I feel I should wait until all my exams are finished...Comment
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Our "quotes about fashion" thread was started with a Pessoa quote.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Well in that case, I guess a few paragraphs can't hurtComment
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How do you find Arguably? I love Hitchens for all his brilliance and flaws, have been taught by him, have interviewed him, but reading the collected essays made me feel that he just could not get over himself - his unquenchable desire to be the smartest guy in the room, the self-conscious pirouettes of witticism just made the reading tiresome. I gave up half way.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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