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Mon Jan 19 15:10:45 2004
Theory by all means,
but practice first.
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Lower back pains?
Use Lesbigay!
(Keywords that
double as
Pomo Poems!)
Sweat & thundering The first block or two here
industrial noise; is not so bad. Move it back up
and the silence top, with a goto... to what?
of snowy spaces... the plan?
The old "triad"?
Truth over beauty,
intellect over passion,
freedom over security--
Still...
A beauty in the cold truth,
A passion for the intellect,
And freedom is the only security.
Contempt for the mundane,
A refusal to conform,
even to the non-conformists.
The constellation
of my interests
and ideas also
can repel other
kinds of women.
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fate vt fated; fating
(1601)
:DESTINE; also: DOOM (the deep antipathy...seeming to fate
them to antagonism - Les Savage)
fated adj
(1715)
:decreed, controlled, or marked by fate
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Virtue may not be it's own reward.
But vice is usually it's own punishment.
"Hobbes is REAL and IS ALIVE!!!!!"
--- timothy.j.burke
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"You are trapped in that bright moment when you learned your doom."
--- Vol Nonik, in Delany's _Fall of the Towers_
Courtesy of djdaneh@pbhyc.pacbell.com (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
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"The exhortation to the older Saxon term is a new version of
an older rule: the exhortation to the Greek before the
Latin. But why might one prefer the Greek "rhapsode" to the
Latin "delirium"? Delirium speaks only of derangement, in
deference to the enthusiasm and the ecstasy that still
inheres in it. It is not as Gaimon's Prince of Dreams
would sometimes have us believe: that Delirium was once
Delight. Rather, Delirium was once madness -- and is now
Delight."
Samuel R. Delany,
_Silent Interviews_,
"Introduction: Reading the Written Interview"
(That spelling of Gaiman's name is Delany's,
not mine, and conventionally I'm supposed to
interject a rather rude [sic] there, though
I really wish I was allowed to just fix it
without being accused of re-writing history
or something.)
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You do know about
libertarians, right? If you
don't, try to search (^S) for
LIBERTY (and don't forget the
caps).
And hide my contempt
of someone with a
standard-issue mind
that goes group thinking along...
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H To Woe
98 percent
((
Humanity in a
Bottle
???))
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Excised from intro to
UNINTENDED
Traps of virtual
solipsism exist
even in the non-
virtual world.
Too murky without having read the letter from
Ed where he talks about "traps of virtual
solipsism", e.g. Gibson's "Count Zero".
(in conversation, he argues
that this stuff is more like
masturbation than using drugs,
though I don't quite get why
one metaphor is better than
the other... I'm inclined to
think of VR as drugs, myself.)
There's also the point that
virtual is not exactly a
synonym for the unreal.
Gibson's cyberspace is an
alternative way of
interacting with the real,
not necessarily a retreat
from it.
So what's the non-virtual world
exactly? Not just the non-VR
world, right...
Relating to the world
as a mass of abstractions
is not the exclusive
province of the computer user.
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Outtake from SATANS_PLACE
(redundant, I think):
You can tell a story
about a character's
confusion, and
ideally you'll tell
it from inside that
character's point of
view, but ultimately
the confusion itself
should become
comprehensible.
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Outtake from IRONTHORN, second half
of an H.G. Wells quote:
"When men and
women are unlimited and
unrestrained, the
evidence of history shows
clearly that they are all
liable to become monsters
of self-indulgence; when,
on the other hand, they
are driven and unhappy,
then their impulse is
towards immoderate
tragical resorts, toward
wild revolts or towards
the austerities and
intensities of religion."
Possibly that can/should be spliced in with
UNINTENDED or CONSTRAINED in some way.
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