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Echoes and Mirrors

English - Philosophy, Linguistics, Literature
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Echoes and Mirrors · 1M ago

I can’t get this out of my head

“First Time” by Jason Shinder I was a virgin but I knew the messy sexual hunger of the word ah. It was like two wires crossing that never should. It was like    the invention of sound for the deaf. Through my brother’s great, slightly open,    bedroom door I saw two heads bobbing for apples on [...]
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Echoes and Mirrors · 1M ago

29 is a great number

This is me. I am that pocket TV. In Black and White. Related posts: I did go booty dancing the other night, although I don’t think that counts. Kaprekar Number yer damn tootin’ Related posts: I did go booty dancing the other night, although I don’t think that counts. Kaprekar Number yer damn tootin’
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Echoes and Mirrors · 6M ago

This is the future of art

Subtlety is more important than anything else, ever. Related posts: Sex, Art and Selection Dissembling is an Art Aural Attak: The Benjamins – The Art of Disappointment Related posts: Sex, Art and Selection Dissembling is an Art Aural Attak: The Benjamins – The Art of Disappointment
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Echoes and Mirrors · 6M ago

I have a blog? Oh look I have a blog.

I’m pretty terrible about not posting anything on here. Pretty much this is a result of being bogged down with a mountain of homework or other academic work, which is an adequate excuse for me. I was considering implementing something to produce a daily digest of interesting links from google reader
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Echoes and Mirrors · 8M ago

Yelling at the Grass For Being The Wrong Shade of Green

Americans Should Be Able to Sell Stuff Without a Permit The normal mindset among U.S. officials is that prior permission should be required to sell legal goods to a willing buyer. Kids selling lemonade on the street are shut down. A Missouri man has been fined $90,000 for selling rabbits (he made ab
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Echoes and Mirrors · 9M ago

In Which I Ponder Language and Philosophy, Causing Me to Nerdgasm Publicly… Again

Language is fine; people are the problem It is neither rational nor moral to suggest that words have some—let me risk lifting a word from Dr. Hart’s field—ousia or Platonic essence. Words mean only what people choose them to mean. That is precisely why nice no longer means “lewd.” Transpire came to
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Echoes and Mirrors · 9M ago

The Unbearable Death of Postmodernism

Postmodernism is dead I have some good news—kick back, relax, enjoy the rest of the summer, stop worrying about where your life is and isn’t heading. What news? Well, on 24th September, we can officially and definitively declare that postmodernism is dead. Finished. History. A difficult period in hu
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Echoes and Mirrors · 9M ago

Quick and Dirty, but I couldn’t help it…

Taking a quick break from studying to do this reflects how much I don’t care about time management. I know it’s a crappy photoshop job: I’m no photoshop guru, and that it only took 15 minutes doesn’t help either. Related posts: A quick comparison literary humor NIMBYs win battle against dirty homele
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Echoes and Mirrors · 9M ago

A Couple Random Literary Notes (And One Shameless Plug)

First, a shameless plug: I have a poem in the new issue of Used Gravitrons. Check it out, the whole issue is quite wonderful, really. Second, and maybe a little late, but Miracle Jones at The Fiction Circus posted a wonderful guide to writing fiction: How to be a Fiction Writer. And I’m not sure [..
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Echoes and Mirrors · 9M ago

But, but, but voting is your civic duty!

  Also, to cut down on the cynicism and inject some wholesome idealism, check this out: ALL-Left.net. Related posts: Lord help me if I ever get called for Jury Duty Related posts: Lord help me if I ever get called for Jury Duty
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