- in return the board ho divas receive a kind of social capital from the other board ho’s. At least they get something. The rest of us are getting broke off for free.
- That Marie Antoinette article? At the time there was no copyright-free picture of Marie Antoinette.
- I'm just trying to wrestle with why online life is so unpleasant and to identify one piece of why.
- Some people call this a garden, but it's really just piles of writing organized loosely by topic of interest instead of by chronological order.
- Open spaces will bring noise and discomfort, as well as freedom and creativity.
- Luhmann never had a grip in the first place.
- Ah yes, a wiki of existing facts tainted by personal fairytales.
- We can work very hard at a lot of things in life without seeing much improvement.
- He always recovered from his mental truancy with disappointment. He enjoyed the feeling of blankness, but it frightened him afterwards when he came out of it and could not remember what he had been thinking.
- While that's somewhat true to my analytical method, or whatever, that isn't really true to my feelings.
- But the air was fresh and cool, the street was quiet, and out here nobody was passing judgment on my worth as a human being.
- It took me a solid month of staring at walls before creeping boredom began to outweigh existential suffering.
- Felicidade dá um trabalho dos infernos.
- There's no point in staying stuck, but there's even less point in pretending to be free
- You can only give things up once they start to let you down
- I'll just say that it usually ain't pretty for most hypertext devs out there.
- A vida na universidade é cheia de livros chatos
- I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself.
- Ah, personalities. That’s really what one wants to know about
- The principal purpose of a mage is to impose his vision upon the world.
- Google takes us to Wikipedia, and what we find there is not bad
- How the fuck is life worth living if the brains we have right now aren't good enough?
- Yes, storytelling, the old myth around the campfire, blind Homer, universal Shakespeare, this is the art ladies and gentlemen that strikes to the eternal core of the human condition... This is high art and if you don't have it you are dust in the wind.... I can't tell you how many times I have heard this bullshit... This is known in my field as the "Me and My Pal Bill Shakespeare" argument.
- It had a kind of aura now; in the margins were my illegible undergraduate notes and imitations in pencil, in addition to a series of coffee stains, small traces from a previous self in love with the nonexistent daughter of the couple to whom I’d eventually brought the volume as a kind of offering; now all those distances, real and fictive, were reflected in Bronk’s poetry, as though in some impossible mirror.
- If a good story is a journey into its world, then I have been privileged to travel through so many worlds of wonder.
- As she padded around, knocking over files and bookmarks and licking digital words, she found that she was thoroughly enjoying her new adventure.
- This is not an actual museum, because it is not an actual place, but the virtual Museum of Screens is the closest the museum would be to a real place.
- de fato, não é difícil encontrar o PDF se você procurar no google, mas o primeiro resultado é de uma wiki de speedrunning e o segundo é um post do reddit com um link do google drive. essa é a web que eles querem tirar da gente.
- A scene was unfolding around him, no doubt, but his attention was so submerged that he could hardly make out what was going on. If he clawed his way up the slippery well shaft, what would he find anyway, except Kettle extolling Queen Mary’s child-rearing methods, or Seamus radiating Celtic charisma?
- Being a pig in the trough of a disreputable emotion turned out to fall short of the spontaneous timelessness of involuntary memory and associative thinking.
- Narrative is the oldest and most powerful human technology. It may prove more dangerous than any surveillance tool yet.
- Something about this is wrong. But I don’t think a social movement exists for this yet
- It is arguable which words are synonyms and which are not
- If we don't look for the answer now, there is a chance it will never be found.
- Wherever there is abundant consumption, a major spectacular opposition between youth and adults comes to the fore among the false roles – false because the adult, master of his life, does not exist and because youth, the transformation of what exists, is in no way the property of those who are now young, but of the economic system
- It's a form of fiction I'm not sure we have the right word for. It's about being a part of the story, but not controlling it.
- Of the installation, no physical evidence remains. Of the book-work, only one copy. The QuarkExpress file is stored on a 44 MB SyQuest cartridge which I still own, but the contents of which I can no longer access. The handmade website, on the other hand, is still online and it still works.
- From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.
- The link between me and the factories is broken, I have no money.
- The meticulous records that allowed her to omit the other things
- Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else
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