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Tracking a Mouse

colby — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:43:42 +0000

Boneyard

colby — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:23:02 +0000

List of Recently Visited Wikipedia Articles

colby — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:46:07 +0000

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Altruism

colby — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:09:57 +0000

One of the grimmest monuments to altruism is man’s culturally induced selflessness: his willingness to live with himself as with the unknown, to ignore, evade, repress the personal (the non-social) needs of his soul, to know least about the things that matter most, and thus to consign his deepest values to the impotent underground of subjectivity and his life to the dreary wasteland of chronic guilt.

- Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto

Escaped animal drill

colby — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:53:16 +0000

Ueno Zoo, Tokyo

Unique humans?

colby — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:14:45 +0000

Temes

colby — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:23:40 +0000

Why?

colby — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:39:28 +0000

Paranoia

colby — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:08:12 +0000

Paranoiac-critical activity organizes and objectivizes in an exclusivist manner the limitless and unknown possibilities of the systematic association of subjective and objective ’significance’ in the irrational…

…it makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality

- Salvador Dali, Conquest of the Irrational

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Robert Graves on creativity and time

colby — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:38:43 +0000

…it is not too much to say that all original discoveries and inventions and musical and poetical compositions are the result of proleptic thought – the anticipation, by means of a suspension of time, of a result that could not have been arrived at by inductive reasoning – and of what may be called analeptic thought, the recovery of lost events by the same suspension.

This need mean no more than that time, though a most useful convention of thought, has no greater intrinsic value than, say, money. To think in temporal terms is a very complicated and unnatural way of thinking, too; many children master foreign languages and mathematic theory long before they have developed any sense of time or accepted the easily disproved thesis that cause precedes effect…

…In the poetic act, time is suspended and details of future experience often become incorporated in the poem, as they do in dreams. This explains why the first Muse of the Greek triad was named Mnemosyne, ‘Memory’: one can have memory of the future as well as of the past. Memory of the future is usually called instinct in animals, intuition in human beings.

- Robert Graves, The White Goddess