December 2011
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In the early Sixties, the patrician William F. Buckley joked that he would...
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kenbaumann asked: What is philosophy?
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Top n albums of 2011
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk, best version
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven - Wild Man Blues
Jeff Beck, Imelda May - Walking in the Sand
Fugazi - I’m So Tired
Mississippi River Commission - Sixty Plates Charting the Current and Historical Meanders of the Mississippi River
Jelly Roll Morton - Buddy Bolden’s Blues
Kristin Dombek - Notes on a News Cycle
Crystal Stilts - Converging in...
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Oblivion scattereth her poppy, and besides it’s time to go inside now, feed the aggressive pets, forgive our trespasses for trespassing against us. Other times monotony is like a cave, the air is fresh, tedium tonic. We lie in a museum of helpful objects, leaning toward the accomplishment of a small, complicated task, like sailors in...
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reitschule-deactivated20120126 asked: please can you tell me about birds' hell by beckmann?
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reitschule-deactivated20120126 asked: can you talk about that painting? is it a prison?
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There were three cats on the wide road.
‘Cats’ is a noun and ‘road’ is a noun. Their status as nouns means that they don’t need to be three specific, remembered cats or a well known road. Indeed it could be something you’ve only seen one of, Mt. Everest for example, impossibly multiplied by the modifier ‘three.’ Abstraction is a human...