errolmorris
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People who suggest that there is no objective truth should also be sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit.
6:27 AM Oct 11th
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People who suggest that there is no such thing as truth should be sentenced to death for a crime they didn't commit.
8:28 PM Oct 9th
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MORE FROM THE ANNALS OF PARANOIA: Gödel spent the last years of his life engaged in elaborate calculations on his electric bills.
7:16 PM Oct 8th
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The adversarial system doesn't produce truth, it produces adversaries.
9:33 AM Oct 8th
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I'm doing my best to combine the elliptical and the vague. (It's not that easy.)
4:02 AM Oct 8th
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Great moments in the annals of paranoia. (Maybe I can get there someday. Well, one can hope.)
4:00 AM Oct 8th
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Gödel believed that Leibniz's characteristica universalis was feasible, but convinced himself that conspiratorial censoring had taken place.
8:17 PM Oct 7th
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A ROUNDELAY OF MATHEMATICIANS: Now, an interview with Gregory Chaitin. (I have always wanted to meet him.)
8:00 PM Oct 7th
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Can't wait to read Lydia Davis's new translation.
12:58 PM Oct 3rd
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What if Emma Bovary had never read Lamartine? (Does it make sense to ask a counter-factual question about a fictional character?)
12:56 PM Oct 3rd
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But isn't Mark David Chapman a real person who destroyed a real person because he was influenced by a fictional character?
8:31 PM Oct 2nd
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Yes, of course. Mark David Chapman. "He knew where the ducks went in winter." (Thank you, Meredith.)
8:27 PM Oct 2nd
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I was thinking of real people destroyed by fictional characters.
7:25 PM Oct 2nd
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I seem to be writing something that someone has already written.
2:36 PM Oct 2nd
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THE CLOSET OF SIR KENELM DIGBY KNIGHT OPENED: THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY, p. 272, (Use it prudently.)
2:35 PM Oct 2nd
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READING ABOUT: "Negative hallucinations," not seeing what is there, Sir Kenelm Digby, and the powder of sympathy. (The van is coming soon.)
7:32 AM Oct 2nd
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Yeah. Don Quixote and Emma Bovary.
10:04 PM Oct 1st
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Why is it assumed that reading is beneficial?
5:36 PM Oct 1st
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I am interested in assembling a collection of stories of people destroyed by reading. (Any suggestions?)
5:35 PM Oct 1st
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WATCHING "RAILROADED:" Anthony Mann, John Alton, plus a terrific cat fight. (Isn't that cinema?)
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