Bumper cars
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The old readily mistake senility for wisdom itself.
Is a kite free if it breaks its string?
Oblomov would have loved the iPad.
The notion that books be judged by their ethical content is the first step on the slippery slope towards banning and then burning them.
Just as there are false memories, so there is false nostalgia, the pain, algos, of yearning for a time and place you never were, nor could even have been.
Our participation in social media is an invidious form of confession, the intimate instrument of institutional power and control. As we delineate and expose our wishes, wants and needs, we provide the information necessary for our own manipulation and subjugation.
The moral is: unless we learn to simulate, dissemble, bluff, fake, counterfeit, feign or sham, we make our selves into subjects.
Never tell the truth. Never turn yourself in.
Wearing the dress of others is not an expression of deviant exoticism, rather of acceptance and of willingness to share bodily sensations. There is no embrace more intimate except the one without any clothes
Lozeau: translated two of the former’s poems. The first poem, above, was renewing itself in my mind as I flew back…