Red Mars! It was transfixing, mesmerizing. Everyone felt it.
Of course there was no such thing as a true repetition of anything; ever since the pre-Socratics that had been clear, Heraclitus and his un-twice-steppable river and so on. So habits were not truly it...
Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint so long ago. He saw again: it was by far the greatest painting in the the cave, maybe the worl...
Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things.
Memory is a haunting.
Maybe that’s why we’ve never heard a peep from anywhere. It’s not just that the universe is too big. Which it is. That’s the main reason. But then also, life is a planetary thing. It begins on a plane...
Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.
Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Jevons Paradox,
I’m told finance doesn’t require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed. So it’s more just advanced programming,
It’s like being Calvin and watching Hobbes turn back into a stuffed doll.
It was winter here, as if they were in Patagonia or New Zealand, and the light from the sunspot on the sunline smeared so that shadows blurred at the edges, and the air looked rusty.
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
It was hard for her not to feel that a person loving her was making a big mistake, because she knew herself better than they did, so knew their love was given in error, and thus they must be some kind...
It was a whiny culture, we were finding.
It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person
Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme,...
In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.
If you don’t act on it, it wasn’t a true feeling
If you can’t afford housing then the right to vote is a bad joke.