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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23 Jun '09 02:29:24 AM

'She sang pop music.'

23 Jun '09 12:38:16 AM

'Reading the essay now, I still sense in it the initial exhilaration in finding ways to mean everything I was saying, and to say a larger fraction of what I had philosophically to say, than I had ever experienced. The elation was an experience as of escaping from what I had inarticulately felt in my philosophical education, and remaining in much of philosophy's dispensation as I began my life of teaching philosophy, as prohibitions on, or suspicions of, everyday speech, quite in the absence of patient attention to the individual utterance.'

22 Jun '09 09:27:04 PM

'Surely there will be a day of reckoning…'

22 Jun '09 05:47:47 PM

Train metaphors make their way into German James Brown reviews as much as English ones.

20 Jun '09 05:55:44 PM

The slow despair of boarding a cool, quiet, empty bus that does not stay that way.

20 Jun '09 02:15:34 AM

DIY Moretti-ism for the interviews in the second part of The Savage Detectives.

19 Jun '09 10:45:19 PM

'I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.'

18 Jun '09 01:49:19 AM

The dismay of seeing the convenience store cashier, who sells people lottery tickets at the convenience store, standing in line at the convenience store, buying a lottery ticket.

16 Jun '09 07:37:13 PM

Roygbiv!