tags: Calvin and Hobbes
2001
January
- 2001 Jan 15
- Calm
Am I nothing but a clockwork orange? Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Calvin and Hobbes and the Myth of Sisyphus.
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- Before I Lay Me Down to Sleep
More Calvin and Hobbes. Crackers and script-kiddies. More music. Princesses and unicorns.
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2002
March
- 2002 Mar 7
- Play It Off
“Reality continues to ruin my life” — Calvin from “Calvin and Hobbes”
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2003
March
- 2003 Mar 5
- There Is No Hope
It is all meaningless distraction. Samsara. It is the state of nothingness that I seek.
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2004
March
- 2004 Mar 16
- the beauty of being in between
I think I've too deeply internalized Zeno's Paradox. I am all about trying (and failing) to cover an infinite amount of distance in a finite amount of time—in less arcane terms, I have developed a perverse taste for the feeling of going nowhere fast.
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2008
March
- 2008 Mar 31
- escape from the black iron prison
Philip K Dick coined the phrase "black iron prison" to describe the illusory world that we are trapped in, forever living and reliving the first century anno domini. It is an instrument of the tyrannical Empire, initially identified with Rome but also identified with any wielder of imperialist power descended from Rome, culminating with the tyrannical elements that rule the United States. Dick identified Richard Nixon as the apex of this tyranny. (God only knows what Dick would've thought of George W Bush and Dick Cheney.)
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