http://hypocritereader.com/An online monthly, of essays conceptual and timely, based in Brooklyn, New York.en-usSun, 27 May 2012 04:44:29 -0000http://hypocritereader.com/16/birth-of-intelligenceno real possessions except his body - begging the world for meaning - « your morality » - terror disentangles itself from its source - « luxurious detachment » - « the perfect brute, indifferent to my happiness » - you can get away with anything, because you’re not a threat - awareness of the looseness, contingency, mutabilityhttp://hypocritereader.com/16/birth-of-intelligencehttp://hypocritereader.com/16/the-framework-gamefriend yelling at other friend - estimation (fast!) and experiment (slow!) - my arguments against « fast/slow-brain » were just « slow-brain arguments » - Everything Is A Remix - 99.9% of stuff is a remix - overcome her obsession about the « meaning of life » and « making a difference » - mean inaccessible hot girlhttp://hypocritereader.com/16/the-framework-gamehttp://hypocritereader.com/16/nothing-knowingin the space of the mind, knowledge abhors ignorance - nothing is - « doubt in order to doubt » - possible sources of error - <i>sum nihil ergo sum</i> - « something intermediate between God and nothing » - a rhetoric of gratitudehttp://hypocritereader.com/16/nothing-knowinghttp://hypocritereader.com/16/solomon-and-equity« for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? » - what he refrained from asking - impartiality - Anatole France’s famous joke - premature, crude, and approximate - the king’s word - to each what is proper - reasonable readers http://hypocritereader.com/16/solomon-and-equityhttp://hypocritereader.com/16/fact-and-affecta working definition of idiocy - feat of hermeneutic friendship - how to strain something « symbolical » - « I cannot bear another day like today » - a genuinely exploratory drive - all the trauma can melt into intimacy - Father Compson’s careworn abstractions - hair trickling over the skull - the most responsible form of communication http://hypocritereader.com/16/fact-and-affecthttp://hypocritereader.com/16/introductionhttp://hypocritereader.com/16/introductionhttp://hypocritereader.com/15/dilation-radiancepromising to appear - an implacably subjective syntax - radiance through hermetic iteration - one gap blinking at another - differences that fall far afield - a second natural world - it shouldn’t even be read - of the flaneur as a « bulwark against progress » - hieroglyphic existence in a bureaucratic world - the existence of ‘literature’ or thought through wordshttp://hypocritereader.com/15/dilation-radiancehttp://hypocritereader.com/15/self-referencethe standard liar’s paradox - illegitimate totalities - psychohistory is not a fatalistic science - incompleteness and inconsistency - <i>arithmoquining</i> - true but unprovablehttp://hypocritereader.com/15/self-referencehttp://hypocritereader.com/15/inside-outplot the lips’ journey - for a boy to critique a girl - against self-involvement - not able to be sick - open the dictionaries and the maps - typically the size of a pebble - fluid near the disturbance - 10 meters in diameter - stony, iron, and stony-iron - gaps in the bands of color - devoid of reader subjectivity http://hypocritereader.com/15/inside-outhttp://hypocritereader.com/15/on-learning-a-tradejobs don’t usually make people happy - anxious or bored or depressed sometimes - succeed at something that’s not yours - trellises and birdbaths and simple kinetics - running a bead or pounding washers in half - stings a little no matter how it’s said - if you can’t produce you must be sick? - dearer than any lump of cashhttp://hypocritereader.com/15/on-learning-a-tradehttp://hypocritereader.com/15/the-sabbaths-recreationrabbinic hermeneutics - the absolute perfection of the text - « He rested on the seventh day » - the erasure, rather than the solution - « like a man striking the hammer » - « Mortal man, who does not know his minutes » - the repetition of cessation - « a king who made a bridal chamber » - « If all the seas were of ink, and all ponds planted with reeds »http://hypocritereader.com/15/the-sabbaths-recreationhttp://hypocritereader.com/15/vladimir-propp<i>The Morphology of the Folktale</i> - an end in itself - scientific analysis relating to narrative structure - « Hero leaves home » - what his favorite book was <i>about</i> - gigantic charts to codify literature - « Toward a Structure of Reality Shows » - procedure is kinghttp://hypocritereader.com/15/vladimir-propphttp://hypocritereader.com/15/afterthought-innocencehttp://hypocritereader.com/15/afterthought-innocencehttp://hypocritereader.com/14/endnotes-to-an-odehistory without footnotes - against all commentary - a very quiet bride - there is something more to the poem than just the poem - they are: the vessels - I think the town is a poem. - the melody closest to but not yet silence - What should have ravished her?http://hypocritereader.com/14/endnotes-to-an-odehttp://hypocritereader.com/14/a-back-way-into-eden« trying too hard » - conformity with a rule - « His soul is in fact located (and it’s a frightful thing to see) in his elbow. » - physical grace and spiritual grace - Narcissus does not recognize himself - the tree of knowledge - kung fu movieshttp://hypocritereader.com/14/a-back-way-into-eden