December 2011
11 posts
If you get my drift
Euphemisms are potentially deeply subversive. They allow the oppressed to communicate with each other in the open through a code. I guess this fact has been well observed in wartime or whenever censorship has reigned, but I think the power of euphemisms has been forgotten in these times where many of us (i.e. inhabitants of the First World) have known only peace and great freedom of...
Exercise No. 1
I ask myself and think seriously:
Of the people I personally know, who are true intellectuals? Not just the copious numbers of bright and ambitious people who find graduate school to be a convenient and comfortable enough way to pass the years, but those who really can only draw their strength from the life of the mind? What traits do these people share? How do I know that they...
WatchJaakko Pallasvuo, Low Epic
Funny how the act of saying certain words makes the speaker look like the word in action. Examples:
— “fashion” (you can just see the sophisticated red pair of lips puckering out at the “sh” and showering you an instant with her glittery spit);
— “poo” (at the moment of either highest struggle or relief); and
— “snot” (midway through saying the word, you look like...
