How can we ever recover from the chasm separating the signifier from the signified?
Winston Joyce, Rational Agent Theory.
You must have definitions. Definitions are circular. You need axioms, and those are assumptions. Purity, therefore, is right out.
Trevor Albertus, Malevolent Asymmetry.
[In the west], we are unable to live our culture. We cannot stop being aware of it—as though it were some mechanism that fascinates us, or appalls us.
Alex Twist, A Primer of Posturing.
“Surely,” urged Brad, “by means of diagrams we can uncover all.”
Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.
Sondra patiently reminded everyone of the character traits she was so proud of: post-shame, post-truth, post-patriarchy, post-beauty, post-judgmentalism,….
Burdyce Goode, Philosophy of Vegetables.
“But where does faith come from?” demanded Fiona.
“Try to keep in mind that ‘where’ is a word,” replied Grigoriev.
Roger Penberthy, A Non-Newtonian Unpleasantness.
Freudian psychology is a bluff. A bluff that succeeded.
Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.
“You could read a book at midnight by the light of him.”
Roone Giddings, An Arrangement of Particles.
“I’m tired of words being hollowed out,” muttered Jack. “I’m tired of the internet.”
Griffin Poindexter, Particle Swarm Theory: More Stories.
“Anything but reality,” snapped Marko. “Literally anything.”
Trent Bendix, Patricia Knows Best.
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