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| We call something "fantasy" rather than "poetry" or "philosophy" when it revolves around metaphors which do not catch on with other people |
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| Make the past itself, those events a product of time and chance which blindly impress on our behaviour and make thyself anew. |
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| found a way to describe that past which the past never knew, and thereby found a self to be which her precursors never knew was possible. |
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| escape from inherited descriptions of the your existence and find new descriptions |
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| truth is a mobile army of metaphors |
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| metaphoric re-descriptions are the mark of genius and of revolutionary scientific leaps forward |
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| Literal is just the inheritance of a familiar language all dead metaphors - create your own language |
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| every poetic act rehearses the random, meaningless act of death. |
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| A poet fears that nothing is left to perform |
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| Forecasters repeatedly get it wrong |
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| “He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.” from |
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| “: Nate Silver knows there’s no such thing as only ” |
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| What possible difference would it make |
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| meaning – something determined by the intentions of the user of a word – determines reference, what the word picks out in the world. |
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| Have the courage to use your own understanding |
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| "The liberator who destroyed my property has re-aligned my paradigm of perception." |
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