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23 Mar 2024

Whatever It Is, I'm Against It!

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  Groucho was a punk rocker   I.   I have given several attempts to explain what the polysemic phrase torpedo the ark - borrowed from Norweg...
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29 Feb 2024

The Funniest and Sweetest Person: In Memory of Richard Lewis (1947-2024)

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Curbing their enthusiasm: Richard Lewis and Larry David (Photo credit: HBO)     I.    Some people think Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were th...
27 Feb 2024

Notes on Socrates and the Ethics of Sobriety (A 6/20 Paper by Maria Thanassa)

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Curbing their enthusiasm: Socrates, Maria Thanassa & Larry David       I.    According to Maria Thanassa [1] , notions of sobriety and ...
26 Feb 2024

Will Absence Make My Heart Grow Fonder of Byung-Chul Han? (Part 2)

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  Cover of the original German edition (2007) [a]     I. According to Byung-Chul Han: "Anti-gravity is the fundamental characteristic ...
15 Jan 2024

Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part Three)

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Cover of the Portuguese edition  (Relógio D'Água, 2022) [a]     I. The ethics of inactivity rests, according to Byung-Chul Han, on timi...
17 Dec 2023

On Curbing One's Enthusiasm for Kafka's Drawings

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  " One of these days I’ll send you a few of my old drawings, to give you something to laugh at.  These drawings gave me greater satisf...
29 Oct 2023

My Debt to Jewish-American Humour

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Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, and Phil Silvers (as Sgt. Bilko)     I.   Humour, said Freud, is a means of obtaining pleasure from life, no matter...
14 Aug 2023

On the Daughters of God

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Portrait of Tammi of Nazareth the onion.com   "And I sayeth unto thee: Look upon mine eyes, which rest within mine head;  not upon mine...
2 Jan 2023

Why You Should Never Wish Happy New Year to a Nietzschean

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    I.    I don't know the origin of the zen fascist insistence on wishing everyone a happy new year, but I suspect it's rooted in ...
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