magnetic clip-on sunglasses

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crizzle

("Tiptoeing on the Ocean of Storms" by Alan Bean, via @christianbok)

Pixinguinha.

FLINTLOCKS

1. I know, I know, they’re not "stupid," they’re just "completely unpracticed in analytic thought."

2. Words are not things & we do know this, but it is more often words that constitute our thoughts in arguing than do the realities they stand for.

3. The writers of the Constitution were very unfortunate in using the word "(fire)arms" when they obviously meant "flintlocks," but it was an age of Neoclassicism & they were gentlemen & a gentleman didn’t talk that way, because the Romans hadn’t & the Romans hadn’t because they were a slave-owning society & craftsmen were always slaves, & only slaves used the particular, technical word for something crafted. A gentleman used the more abstract word, to show that he never dirtied his hands with manual labor.

4. Imagine we had an umbrella term "wartools," which included tanks, jets, bombers, & aircraft carriers, but also flamethrowers, hand grenades, & assault rifles; & the only way we had for referring to an AR-15 was to call it a "handheld wartool." Would it then be so easy to argue that our Constitution’s "flintlock" right would apply also to a "handheld wartool"?

5. And middle-aged men with small-penis-complexes would have to resort to red sports cars.

6. And disaffected young men could freely express their angst with a smaller resultant body-count.

tainopia

The weird landscape as the avatar of evil.

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Lyric overshare.

I don't recognize my own choices.

holding center

Reblogged from Facebook:

Gun pornography is rampant. It's a lazy way of making stories, & made worse by them seeming to be realistic depictions of the world. If we were constantly seeing people LEVITATING to solve their problem, we would know it for the lie it is. Violence never solves a problem. Writers who promulgate this should be shot.

three thoughts on the group mind

In opposing the Egregore, that claims to be the world, one does not reject the world itself but affirms it. What was transcended is only the lie. The world remains as it was, a mystery, but a mystery not impenetrable to the seeker.

If the Egregore is a thing, it is a thing only as a story is a thing. Or rather, humans' need of storying their happenstance: it calls forth story, it calls forth agreement. And it calls forth elaboration, which being inconsistent, leads to imperfect agreement. The story takes maintenance, or it fractures.

The truth of the Egregore is hidden, not because it is secret, but because it isn't.

Flowers of Egil

(via @rebeccablood)

Things analysis cannot do include: discerning the limits of analysis; but also: establishing the aims & methods of analysis. Thus, inference seems "mystical" when we rely on analysis to the point where we do not even realize that the basis of actual intelligence is synthesis.

"She wrote her fiction (all 90 novels and 300 short stories and novellas) longhand in a kind of trance."