A dozen notes and quotes #4
December 17th 2008 06:37
I believe in tolerance, but all racists must die.
It's not surprising that old married couples look the same -- they've been living the same -- same environment, food, habits -- and they have each other's mannerisms and body and thinking to copy...
"Deep down I'm superficial" -- on the wrapper of a Dove chocolate bar.
Verbal diarrhoea, like any variety, is never over when you think it is.
A man holidayed in Japan, and chanced upon a certain bread, filled with warm runny chocolate, in a cornerstore in a suburb of Okinawa.
What the man didn't know was that the recipe had been created only the week before; the bread had been distributed, to test the market, to a handful of stores in the area; and the product line was discontinued a month later.
But for years the man mentioned that bread in the course of talking about his holiday. And until his dying day that bread was his strongest impression of the country, he could feel the chocolate filling his mouth, it represented Japan for him.
What is unobvious from one point of view is obvious, passe, from another.
But isn't that unobviousness, that difficulty, that struggle, still worth something?
Rubbish bin logic. The more bins you have, the more litter on the pavement you create. (From a former North Sydney mayor.)
Exam logic. The more time you have, the more your study expands to fill it. (From a friend of mine, BA, who went on to conclude that you might as well limit your time.)
Busyness logic. The more your time gets filled, the more efficiently you use what you have. -- How to get something done? Give it to a busy person.
To paraphrase: death yields vibrancy, death gives life life.
... closing the door, hiding from her his thoughts, the same way he closes the door to the bathroom.
Where did he acquire this zoning of things as private, and to what end? Why should the private be private?...
Following this line of thinking, one treads the familiar path of justification behind justification -- and ends up with a linear model of instrumental and intrinsic goods -- or else with a network configuration, goods supporting goods and none more intrinsic than any other.
But "the private" perhaps should be understood as a practice -- a pattern of customary behaviour, not always with any particular purpose, but carrying meanings, holding a place in a sign system, and able to be used to express, comunicate, affect once established.
The more reality we experience, the more relations we find.
And the more we virtually experience -- the more films, music, novels, paintings... -- the more we're connected to the non-real?
“Dreams” has a better ring than “wants”, or “greed”.
Philosophy is not a method but a practice -- like doing pushups, like exrecise. But it isn’t “brain exercise” as such. It doesn’t build mental muscles. Rather, it changes experience, and your direction.
Description of Hollywood in The Long Embrace by Judith Freeman:
"I headed out Sunset Boulevard, past Hollywood High School and the cheap divey hotels with the leggy hookers out front, past the Chateau Marmont, where Belushi died of an overdose and the gargantuan billboards loom over the strip, the Marlboro man and his horse like gods high in the sky... The farther you travel the more the air begins to change and become infused with a marine freshness. A mist develops. A faint fog appears, shot through with sunshine. A hazy light that says you're almost to the beach. You smell the coast long before you see it. You sense you're coming to the end of the land."
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing
-- U2
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It's not surprising that old married couples look the same -- they've been living the same -- same environment, food, habits -- and they have each other's mannerisms and body and thinking to copy...
***
"Deep down I'm superficial" -- on the wrapper of a Dove chocolate bar.
***
Verbal diarrhoea, like any variety, is never over when you think it is.
***
A man holidayed in Japan, and chanced upon a certain bread, filled with warm runny chocolate, in a cornerstore in a suburb of Okinawa.
What the man didn't know was that the recipe had been created only the week before; the bread had been distributed, to test the market, to a handful of stores in the area; and the product line was discontinued a month later.
But for years the man mentioned that bread in the course of talking about his holiday. And until his dying day that bread was his strongest impression of the country, he could feel the chocolate filling his mouth, it represented Japan for him.
***
What is unobvious from one point of view is obvious, passe, from another.
But isn't that unobviousness, that difficulty, that struggle, still worth something?
***
Rubbish bin logic. The more bins you have, the more litter on the pavement you create. (From a former North Sydney mayor.)
Exam logic. The more time you have, the more your study expands to fill it. (From a friend of mine, BA, who went on to conclude that you might as well limit your time.)
Busyness logic. The more your time gets filled, the more efficiently you use what you have. -- How to get something done? Give it to a busy person.
To paraphrase: death yields vibrancy, death gives life life.
***
... closing the door, hiding from her his thoughts, the same way he closes the door to the bathroom.
Where did he acquire this zoning of things as private, and to what end? Why should the private be private?...
Following this line of thinking, one treads the familiar path of justification behind justification -- and ends up with a linear model of instrumental and intrinsic goods -- or else with a network configuration, goods supporting goods and none more intrinsic than any other.
But "the private" perhaps should be understood as a practice -- a pattern of customary behaviour, not always with any particular purpose, but carrying meanings, holding a place in a sign system, and able to be used to express, comunicate, affect once established.
***
The more reality we experience, the more relations we find.
And the more we virtually experience -- the more films, music, novels, paintings... -- the more we're connected to the non-real?
***
“Dreams” has a better ring than “wants”, or “greed”.
***
Philosophy is not a method but a practice -- like doing pushups, like exrecise. But it isn’t “brain exercise” as such. It doesn’t build mental muscles. Rather, it changes experience, and your direction.
***
Description of Hollywood in The Long Embrace by Judith Freeman:
"I headed out Sunset Boulevard, past Hollywood High School and the cheap divey hotels with the leggy hookers out front, past the Chateau Marmont, where Belushi died of an overdose and the gargantuan billboards loom over the strip, the Marlboro man and his horse like gods high in the sky... The farther you travel the more the air begins to change and become infused with a marine freshness. A mist develops. A faint fog appears, shot through with sunshine. A hazy light that says you're almost to the beach. You smell the coast long before you see it. You sense you're coming to the end of the land."
***
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing
-- U2
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Comment by Damo
Yet the I still think the real thing is better.