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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 Aug '03 11:43:06 PM

The new Basement Jaxx album Kish Kash certainly is exciting, but now I feel all weak and limp.

(No symbols where none intended.)

29 Aug '03 05:29:44 AM

I would like to remind you that on the VMAs one of the 'Crank Yankers' puppets said that Kelly Clarkson's got some junk in the trunk. Sometimes I think TV is the best thing the human race has ever done.

28 Aug '03 06:22:31 AM

Also, besides the nose and etc., because I am obv. sub-Deleuzean.

Got to cover all my bases.

28 Aug '03 06:21:27 AM

The former is better because it emphasizes, if I may put it in a lazily sub-Deleuzean way because my nose itches and I am tired, the sound the music has of becoming, of constant incipience. Hearing the 'going to break' over and over and over again.

28 Aug '03 06:14:00 AM

Compare 'constantly going to break into some other Monk song' from March 2002 with 'playing with the same theme forever' from fourteen days ago.

26 Aug '03 07:46:41 AM

'syncategorematic': forming a meaningful expression only in conjunction with a denotative expression (as a content word) <logical operators and function words are syncategorematic>

No one should ever have to use this word or know what it means. Where oh where did we lose our way.

24 Aug '03 09:34:21 PM

There's like one joke in Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art but I will grudgingly admit that the man had a sense of humor. In The Philosophical Review, Volume 61, Issue 2, he wrote: 'The explanation in terms of resemblance is very good except for being so wrong.'

24 Aug '03 09:16:00 PM

The university takes the shotgun approach to knowledge.

24 Aug '03 08:16:50 PM

Jess writing about Kompakt.

'Schaffelfieber' sounds like a German muppet. On German Fraggle Rock.