'Mr Wooster?' said old Rowbotham. 'May I say Comrade Wooster?'
'I beg your pardon?'
'Are you of the movement?'
'Well - er -'
'Do you yearn for the revolution?'
'Well, I don't know that I exactly yearn. I mean to say, as far as I can make out, the whole hub of the scheme seems to be to massacre coves like me; and I don't mind owning I'm not frightfully keen on the idea.'
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And while we fret and writhe in bandaged uncertainty...we fabulate.J. Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, p. 242.
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I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States
"Whaling Voyage by one Ishmael
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN"
S. Anderson, "Godliness", Winesburg, Ohio[His] mind went back to the men of the Old Testament days who had also owned lands and herds. He remembered how God had come down out of the skies and talked to these men and he wanted God to notice and to talk to him also. A kind of feverish boyish eagerness to in some way achieve in his own life the flavor of significance that had hung over these men took possession of him. Being a prayerful man he spoke of the matter aloud to God and the sound of his own words strengthened and fed his eagerness.
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...under the presidency of Clinton, the army budget practically doubled...T. Todorov, The New World Disorder, p.25
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The simple theory is this: a state of mind is conscious when (and only when) one has a thought about it. This explains why it comes as a shock to us to be told that most states of mind are unconscious: for whenever we think about one, that makes it conscious [...] Suppose you are thinking, unconsciously, about someone who dislikes you, and it is spoiling your mood. What would it take for the unconscious thought to become conscious?A. Morton, "Darkly through the glasses", TLS July 28 2006, p.11
Simple answer: you'd have to have another thought, the thought that you were thinking about the person who dislikes you. If you have such a thought then you clearly are aware that you are thinking of your non-friend, and so that thought is conscious. And it is hard to imagine any way that the thought could be conscious that would not lead you to think that you had it. So consciousness is thought about thought.
That is the "higher-order thought" theory, often called the "HOT" theory of consciousness.
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Die schönsten Fotos waren jene, die von den Wilden in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung gemacht worden sind. Denn der Wilde steht immer dem Tod gegenüber, er tritt dem Objektiv auf die gleiche Weise wie dem Tod entgegen.
The most beautiful photos were those taken by the savages in their natural surroundings. The savage is always facing off with death, and he approaches the lense in the same way he approaches death.Jean Baudrillard, Transparenz des Bösen, 1992. Transl. mine.
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Among his criticisms listed on Conservapedia, Mr Schlafly explains how many Wikipedia articles often use British spelling instead of American English and says it "refuses" to give enough credit to Christianity for the Renaissance. "Facts against the theory of evolution are almost immediately censored," he says.
Mr Schlafly, a lawyer, is the son of a prominent American conservative, Phyllis Schlafly, famed for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment.
Conservapedia was created last November as a project for home-schooled children, Mr Schlafly said, and he believes it could eventually become a reference for teachers in the US. "It is rapidly becoming one of the largest and most reliable online educational resources of its kind," he said.
(via theage)
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I hate these films the most: 1. Russian Ark, Sokurov 2. There will be blood, PT Anderson 3. Gerry, Van Sant 4. Primer, Carruth 5. Shadow of the Vampire, Mehrige. 6. Dancer in the Dark, von Trier 7. Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick 8. Magnolia, PT Anderson 9. Palermo Shooting, Wenders 10. My Son, my Son, Herzog 11. Cave of forgotten dreams, Herzog
