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language is no deus ex machina to account for philosophy.

Jefferson was a slaveholder, a racist, and–if one accepts that consent cannot be given if it cannot be denied–a rapist.

sober as a corpse, I used to tell him.

Nathan said, "Not a chance. I've heard him recite it in class. He knows dozens of Poe's poems by heart. 'The Raven,' 'Lenore,' 'The Lake,' 'To Annie'…dozens of them. Sometimes I think he fucking channels Poe.

I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').

Nay; It's nought but an' owd fossil cheese, that somebody's roll't away

The mechanisms our minds use to anticipate the results of our actions are inadequate for coping with modern media.

we are to teach the disciples to obey (do) everything Jesus commanded the twelve disciples to do. This is discipleship; not just studying the Bible,

The sane universities never went near this stuff, but Carnegie Mellon gave us explicit license to break the mold.

I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.

There was no excuse, in this country and in this time, for the spread of a deadly new epidemic.

sleep medication to Lunexor,

the unpredictability of women who, aside from decisions regarding men, were otherwise rational in their behavior.

burning house; watched for the dark trousers and blue

FORD'S LAB was an old house on pilings in the shallows of Dinkin's Bay, just down from the marina

have always thought there might be a lot of cash in starting a religion.   —GEORGE ORWELL, 1938

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.

there is something admirable ... to have to coexist ... some thousands of souls for whom even the hope of a last judgment has been taken away.

Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.

They have more in common with how our brain visualizes things than they do with how reality is actually formed. Since our perception of reality is basically abstraction anyway,*

The system set it has you wired, but it never gets tired. It keeps you in uncertainty while it tracks you with its -sin- number and social security. The system set. See ras cardo's youtube video- the system set.

Let my words give you sustenance, nourish your spirit, and take you places you've never imagined. Not just for today when you've read them, but for whatever forever we have in this life. Or the next.

Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.

The Lone Ranger is a pagan child. If I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling 'em.