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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2001 Jan 17
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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