Asides
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Soaker
Standing in the garden, quenching young tomatoes’ roots, I shot a bee out of the air. I followed it, in jet mode, full bore. Death in the mud by waterfall, not drowned but bludgeoned and crushed.
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A Quote About Diversion
I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber…. But on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that there is one very real reason,…
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Poetic Side Effects
Poetic Side Effects: The result of looking at a water molecule and being able to predict rainbows, or inventing the motor vehicle and predict that dogs will cheerfully stick their faces out into the oncoming wind. – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us
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Not Another Chernobyl
The still-developing situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after last week’s devastating earthquake is not, I repeat, is not another Chernobyl, despite what headline writers and news anchors would like to claim. I assert that, while this crisis hasn’t killed as many people, or leaked as much radiation or fissile material as the 1986…
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Yet Another Preview of “Why You Should Date a Man Who Reads”
Not only is this excerpt longer than the previous excerpt, it is a scanned image out of my notebook, which, if I’m not terribly mistaken, makes this a more authentic reading experience. This might also tip my hand a little bit, revealing that I am, in certain key capacities, very much like the reading man…
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A (Very Short) Preview of “You Should Date a Man Who Reads”
The reading man believes that if he says something so resonant, so brutally true, that if he could articulate the ineffable he could lead you to care. In so doing, caring, you’ll open up to him, and he to you.
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An Observation Regarding Truth & Competence
“Being labeled ‘correct’ or ‘true’ is very. uhhh, pre-postmodern. You know better than to make such judgments. Now, I suppose, one could only call someone ‘legitimate’. It’s not the same thing. So, it seems, my goal is not to be objectively, verifiably correct; instead, it suffices to merely speak and/or write as though what I’m…