| Two things |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|05:26 am] |
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Compare and contrast? Or something.
Also, it occurred to me earlier today that reading non-fiction novels might be gentler on your feelings, as the characters you've come to irrationally like go on living in this world, rather than vanishing into thin air and making you ridiculously crave fan fiction, as imaginary ones do. And, armed with this happy realization, I trawled the web for a trace of that person, the full version of that character. Ha fucking ha. In real life, he died a few years later. |
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| No citations needed for well-read persons |
[May. 25th, 2009|11:53 pm] |
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| |  giddy | ] |
Such premises and corroborative evidence as are drawn from remoter sources, as
well as whatever articles of theory or inference are borrowed from ethnological
science, are also of the more familiar and accessible kind and should be readily
traceable to their source by fairly well-read persons. The usage of citing
sources and authorities has therefore not been observed. Likewise the few
quotations that have been introduced, chiefly by way of illustration, are also
such as will commonly be recognized with sufficient facility without the
guidance of citation.
Thorstein Veblen,
The Theory of the Leisure Class. Preface. |
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| Reading Descartes |
[Mar. 8th, 2009|01:07 pm] |
He does make himself rather hard to hate. I seem to find his brand of humble arrogance inexplicably charming. Also, mathematics is the refuge of cowards :) |
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| Silly Me and the Deathly Hallows |
[Jul. 26th, 2007|03:57 am] |
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| |  thoughtful | ] |
When I was little, I used to read books tinged with Soviet ideology and outright propaganda - mostly pop science and encyclopaedias. I enjoyed it. They gave me a curious feeling of mixed amusement and awe (much more effectively than "1984", which I read later).
Now it seems that reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" has left me with similar unease about the whole series. Only I was expecting something completely different from J.Rowling's books, and so it took me by surprise. Sort of like the difference between going on an amusement ride and er, falling through the floor.
It was more bewildering than painful, however. And I'm still happy about having read inspiring, thoughtful and funny essays and fiction by fellow readers :) |
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| Oh noes! |
[Jun. 20th, 2006|01:18 pm] |
My journal has been tainted! In the lifeless desert scarcely populated by sterile, well-fixed posts, now lurks a greedy opportunistic piece of webculture...
( Behold: The Drawing Meme ) |
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| Books and muscles |
[Dec. 1st, 2005|12:13 am] |
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| |  calm | ] |
I started reading What Good Are the Arts? today, and my scarce knowledge of the accepted works on aesthetics was a bit of a hindrance. But it seems like a good read regardless.
It also seems that physical exercises can indeed be addictive. That's nice. |
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| Hypothesis |
[May. 7th, 2005|05:35 pm] |
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| | mischievous | ] |
Infrared light is not visible for us to make it easier to see where the hot part of a flame ends and the warm part starts. |
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| Test by Hans Eysenck |
[Apr. 14th, 2004|12:22 pm] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
Today I found out that my personality has become somewhat more extravert and a little more stable in the last 4 years... :) |
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| Eyes... |
[Apr. 13th, 2004|03:19 pm] |
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| |  peaceful | ] |
It took me quite a while to learn to see pupils correctly. |
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