January 2012
8 posts
To begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance, easily...
– From Life a User’s Manual by Georges Perec.
December 2011
2 posts
I still can’t decide if sabering Champagne is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard...
– Toby Cecchini
To paraphrase a joke by Macedonio Fernandez, the number of things which are not...
– Umberto Eco
November 2011
6 posts
Grelling--Nelson Paradox
homological: (adjective) An adjective is homological if it describes itself.
heterological: (adjective) An adjective is heterological if it does not describe itself.
As all adjectives either describe themselves or do not describe themselves, all adjectives must be either homological or heterological. Describe heterological.
October 2011
3 posts
I do not wish to become a prisoner of the nominal, believing that things are...
– G., by John Berger.
September 2011
4 posts
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
7 posts
The didactic writer is anything but moral because he is always simplifying the...
– John Gardner, from a combination of interviews.
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
6 posts
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
10 posts
I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by...
– from Nadja by André Breton.