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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: This item was inspired by Cynthia Ozick's amazing blurb for Frederic Tuten's Self Portraits: Fictions: "An amazing, glittering, glowing, Proustian, Conradian, Borgesian, diamond-faceted, language-studded, myth-drowned dream!"
Barely Able writes: I loved this blurb flow chart. It reminds me of the paint swatches at WAL-MART, which are probably the most perfect thing in the store. Which makes me want to destroy them. Or rearrange their perfect order. This is a Luciferian impulse. Did Lucifer really want to destroy? Or did he want to merely re-arrange. En tout cas, it's clear that re-arrangement is a damnable offense. A primordial offense. Perhaps the Ur-Offense. What is literary criticism but an attempt to rearrange artistic works in an imaginary space. It's hilarious. The books stay right where they are put. But if the re-arranger is particularly successful he might have certain books banned or sent to book gulags (thrift stores or worse). In which case, the books find it hard to reproduce. And then they may go extinct. So, overall, I think God is right. He should destroy Satan for being the Great Interior Decorator that he so clearly is. Satan is all about fussiness. There is no sin that does not first begin in fussiness.
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Above, Mike is caught staring at the sunset over Moel y Gest mountain in Wales.
Below, the photo Mike took.
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LAST QUARTEROne-half of the semicolon appears to be illuminated by the reading lamp. The fraction of the semicolon's dot that is illuminated is decreasing, like the sound of waves during low tide. This semicolon is sometimes called Third Quarter. The left half of the semicolon appears lighted, and the right side appears dark. During the time between the Full Semicolon and the Last Quarter Semicolon, the part of the semicolon that appears lighted gets smaller and smaller every day, like a healing wound. It will continue to shrink until the New Semicolon.
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 Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . WALDEN by Henry David ThoreauWhen I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. Suddenly, a shot rings out.
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| Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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 Which word is funnier: car or Buick?
Clue: This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain
Answer: Buick, as it is “funny sounding and more specific.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
J adds:
j. An axon and dendrite dressed up as a German sentence for Halloween.
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Is it true, as Momus
suggests, that there are "few tales which would not be improved by the
addition of the phrase 'suddenly, a shot rang out'"? Decide for
yourself as we alter the opening lines of . . . BUDDHA by Karen ArmstrongOne night toward the end of the sixth century B.C.E., a young man called Siddhatta Gotama walked out of his comfortable home in Kapilavatthu in the foothills of the Himalayas and took to the road. Suddenly, a shot rang out. [Thanks to June for suggesting this send-up of the old saying, "If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him."]
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| The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine |
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~ Mysterious Beards ~ 
Portrait from Autobiography of Enrico Morozzo della Rocca.
“Nebulous and gruesome shreds of blue-fog like wraiths.” —Frederick Albert Cook
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 “Keep a tight lid on the boat, and your ship will come in.” —James Van Pelt
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LAST QUARTER (PROGRESSIVE)"The period of moonlight falls in the first part of the night." —Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, The Andaman Islanders (1948)
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Which word is funnier: fat or bloated?
Clue: This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain
Answer: Bloated, as it is “slightly gross.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107
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