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Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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30 Oct '24 07:06:20 PM

Musil's writer's block

29 Sep '24 05:41:23 AM

Amateur

27 Sep '24 01:38:11 AM

Rocks.

In big piles.

Of rocks.

19 Sep '24 06:49:00 PM

'We haven't invented the Hula-Hoop or anything. We're only contemporary. And if we're different from the rest of TV, it's because the rest of TV isn't even contemporary.'

15 Jul '24 10:06:21 PM

'Listeners, not speakers, are the main reasoners'

7 Jul '24 01:24:30 AM

Atop a massive tree stump, a Lime scooter on its side, as if a sacrifice.

24 May '24 09:09:07 PM

'Like jokes, generally, slang is unsigned.'

12 Apr '24 05:24:27 PM

'An insipid spiritualism supplants a decadent materialism.'

10 Apr '24 05:45:54 PM

Most philosophical writing produced by academics is like business-to-business communication. Yet the customers of these philosophers are never served; they are always wrong.