January 2011
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embracetheenigmatic asked: Your blog is amazing.
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“Beyond this literal forgetting of animals by eating them, animal bodies were, for Kafka, burdened with the forgetting of all those parts of ourselves we want to forget. If we wish to disavow a part of our nature, we call it our ‘animal nature.’ We then repress or conceal the nature, and yet, as Kafka knew better than most, we sometimes wake up and find ourselves, still, only...
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planetloafulon asked: somebody loves you more than anything else in the world.
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“I’m haunted by that scene in 2001. What makes it so poignant, and so weird, is the computer’s emotional response to the disassembly of its mind: its despair as one circuit after another goes dark, its childlike pleading with the astronaut—“I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m afraid”—and its final reversion to what can only be called a state of innocence. HAL’s outpouring of feeling contrasts...
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl →
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