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I was just able to sneak read this at work. Great story, dude. I want to drink a glass of scotch now. Pretty sure I’d get caught with that at work though. - htad—
isn’t modernist text supposed to be written so that context does not matter, and if so, how am i to get a full picture of a book like Mrs. Dalloway without knowing a little bit of history and English culture post-war? or whatever. - htad—
hey it says on wave’s calendar that lasky is gonna do a live reading here…is this true? - Vin Diesel—
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Agents send short fiction to big magazines not for money but to build credibility/exposure for writers with something else coming out. So they’ll send to the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Paris Review, maybe McSweeney’s or Zoetrope, maybe Atlantic, maybe one... - Stu—
At first I didn’t think I’d make it through the story, but then there’s be a nice piece of dialogue or an interesting observation. Kept me going. Good story. - Alec Niedenthal—
I know. I love how there are just shots of the drummer’s hi-hat or whatever. Amazing. - Justin Taylor—
hey, thanks for the love, everyone. And Alec, holy shit, that video!
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The History Of Western Philosophy
Socrates-”I’m gay.”
Plato-”I wrote down what my boss said but it might just be what I said.”
Aristotle-”I’m so old-fashioned. Fuck!”
Jesus-”I don’t know why I gave up so easy. My philosophy is weak.”
Seneca-”It will be okay, I think, or maybe not.”
Augustine-”I’m Christian, but I am a serious philosopher.”
Aquinas-”Me too!”
Machiavelli-”I’m the dude who is the favorite philosopher of every dumb bro.”
Descartes-”I think therefore…..whatever.”
Pascal-”I believe in God because I don’t want to go to hell.”
Spinoza-”We need to start pissing people off.”
Locke-”I’m a racist.”
Hobbes-”I’m a douche.”
Rousseau-”I want to go on a walk.”
Voltaire-”Shit sucks.”
Kant-”I will explain everything but you will learn nothing.”
Adam Smith-”I love money!”
Mill/Bentham-”Sex is good; so is reading a book.”
Schopenhauer-”I hate life, I think. Maybe not.”
Hegel-”I am going to kill you and then steal half of your clothes.”
Marx-”It is impossible to misinterpret my philosophy.”
Dostoevsky-”I write really long books.”
Kierkegaard-”God is alive, I think.”
Nietzsche-”God is dead, pretty much.”
Dewey/James-”We’re American.”
Weber-”Bureaucracy!”
Freud-”There’s something I really want to say but I’m staying silent.”
Wittgenstein-”Why should I say anything?”
Jaspers-”I’m random but I fit in somehow.”
Husserl-”I’m important.”
Heidegger-”I’m a Nazi.”
Arendt-”I am a Jew but I think Heidegger is cool.”
Jung-”I am indifferently opposed to Nazis.”
Lacan-”You probably can’t understand anything I say.”
Sartre-”We’re totally free and this makes total sense!”
Camus-”We’re totally free and this makes no sense!”
De Beauvoir-”We’re free because I agree with Jean-Paul a lot.”
Althusser-”We’re not free.”
Foucault-”Yeah, we’re not free.”
Derrida-”Yeah. I hate myself. And you.”
Adorno-”Everyone is so critical.”
Rorty-”We got to get back to how shit used to be.”
Rawls-”We need to help the poor.”
Nozick-”Fuck the poor.”
Habermas-”What the fuck did you say?”
Peter Singer-”I think he’s talking shit about my animal friends.”
Baudrillard-”Fuck it.”
Zizek-”Youtube me!”
Clancy Martin-”Google video me!
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September 21st, 2009 / 6:51 pmthomas p levy—
De Beauvoir-”We’re free because I agree with Jean-Paul a lot.”
lol
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September 21st, 2009 / 11:35 pmJonny Ross—
exactly
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How did you make the text upside down?
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September 21st, 2009 / 6:48 pmthomas p levy—
probably used one of those unicode generators i would imagine since it’s not an image.
pretty cool
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September 21st, 2009 / 7:31 pmjereme—
molly,
if you look real close you’ll notice it’s not actually upside down. it is a combination of international characters and western letter characters (a n is used to show an upside down U).
it is a neat trick.
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September 21st, 2009 / 7:33 pmreynard seifert—
i’m high as hell too, jereme
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September 21st, 2009 / 8:45 pmjereme—
have fun getting high reynard.
sorry i was slightly off. here is the international characters and reverse western character mappings.
http://www.fileformat.info/convert/text/upside-down-map.htm
September 21st, 2009 / 7:57 pmMatt Cozart—
http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html
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It’s not funny! It’s dangerous!
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hey jimmy in your list of tom hanks movies why dont you have saving private ryan? that shit starts in the ocean. it would come between cast away and splash.
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uosıɐɯ ǝun sɐd ʇsǝ,u ıɔǝɔ
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bwar….
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