February 2012
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The Aporeticus: Argos, dog of Odysseus →
superfluidity:
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At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus returns home in disguise after two decades of war and wandering; his old swineherd, Eumeaus, taking him for a stranger, walks him across his property and nearby his old dog, occasioning one of the earliest sentimental descriptions of the human-canine bond…
I’ve always loved this passage for exactly the reason Mills points out. It’s...
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January 2012
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LOSE CONTROL, Timbaland ft. Jojo
Yes it’s...
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Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values... →
“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”
For serious readers, Franzen said, “a sense of permanence has...
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Foster the People, PUMPED UP KICKS
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“Art was a union of the father and mother worlds, of mind and blood. It might...”
– Hermann Hesse, NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND
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Cutting out meat and fish has made me a bit more adventurous in the food department. One of the more quirky sources of inspiration is the raw food cookbook created by vegan lead singer of Sigur Ros, Jonsi, and his boyfriend Alex. The Good Heart Cookbook doesn’t actually involve much conventional cooking, if any. It’s a collection of raw food recipes, all involving the electrical...