December 2011
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RE: a type which i perhaps wouldn't mind fitting...
the luminous almost; the one who gets mentioned in the footnotes to the 13 or 21 after things like “but this is not to gloss over the achievements of some of their other, lesser-known fellow travellers; in particular ____________” or “though he was not alone in this: several of his contemporaries were exploring the same questions in their own, equally interesting ways, amongst...
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RE: honeycombed with absurdity
The fact that our reality has turned out, so far, to be this way and not some other way comes to seem a billion-to-one fluke, honeycombed with absurdity.
- David D. Roberts, Nothing But History: Reconstruction And Extremity After Metaphysics
“honeycombed with absurdity” is a really wonderful turn of phrase.
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it’d be so lonely
all you can do is woof
– a friend, totally flipping the script re:being a skateboarding dog with human intelligence
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RE: life path ideas
a) long stretches of illuminated drunken sprawl, punctuated by occasional hangovers to clear out any leftover self-pity
b) solitude, voracious reading; ritualistic, contemplative
c) begrudgingly “fall in line”, take up a trade, patiently build up an insular narrative that, years later, upon posthumously discovering my vast writings, people can romanticize as some kind of tortured...
RE: a survey
IMPORTANT: would you rather be jimmy mcnulty or a skateboarding dog with human intelligence?
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RE: the black & brown ep
i think it’s a great testament to how good both milk & brown are that they can cruise control this enjoyably.