josh blog

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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12 Jul '13 09:30:45 PM

'Two uses of "we"'

12 Jul '13 08:47:09 AM

'Darkthrone is for all the evil in man.'

11 Jul '13 09:50:49 AM

'An experience is as much distinguished from other experiences—in which other things are experienced—as it is from the rest of life in which "nothing" is experienced.'

11 Jul '13 06:27:06 AM

An eloquent image: a closet, half-empty.

11 Jul '13 06:22:18 AM

Risky arguments, Gadamer, cherries in a bag.

10 Jul '13 05:56:45 PM

'… under the sign of the exercise…'

10 Jul '13 05:21:59 AM

The store down the street went out of business.

It was replaced by a coffin store.

I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a joke.

I think it might be a joke.

But they have a lot of coffins for it to be a joke.

9 Jul '13 10:31:11 AM

—Someone has already marked up my Montaigne! —Oh… I have!

9 Jul '13 07:29:37 AM

Distinct modes: singing to an audience about your life, singing to yourself about your life (before an audience, a microphone).

Turned inward even when not alone.

Even when wishing to be overheard?