Ed Phillips

In tristitia hilaris, in hilaritate tristis. Marriage of Hilary and Tristopher

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"Words and articulate speech are wonderful inventions—still in their infancy." - W.R. Bion

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The answer: a failure of its own success

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The Answer: "[T]he answer is the thing that will put a stop to curiosity better than anything. If anybody is at all curious, you can stuff an answer down their throat or into their ears and that will stop them doing any further thinking." — WR Bion

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Failing humor: "if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent." — Alan Turing

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Would the prolific cease to be the prolific if it did not have the myco heterotroph to receive the excess of its sugar? Shasta, California

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So many crags to clasp. Mountain walls and lonely lands.

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By Awe: "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." — Thoreau
"Cornell speaks of being 'plunged in world of happiness in which every triviality is imbued with significance'." — Charles Simic, We Comprehend by Awe, Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1992)

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@thomasmurphy__ Too good

[Thomas Murphy @thomasmurphy__]

That citation is from Terence's The Eunuch:

'nihilo plus agas / quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias'

'If you try to impose certainty on uncertainty by reason, you'd achieve no more than if you set about going insane by reason.'

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Every Tom must have his moment. It's already gone before it's reported. A Tom was. He had his moment.

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Life is like setting forth on a boat that is already sinking.
Shunryu Suzuki

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@mbusigin @antirez That one made me laugh pretty hard

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@Lasermazer @bzogrammer Thank you. There's so much literature on Pierce and then there's his work which one begins to quote by passage after a while. Umberto Eco managed to make delightful use of him as just one example in one of the fields he contributed: semiotics.

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@MLStreetTalk @PavelNadin @fchollet Well articulated. I like your framing. Thank you.

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Without knowing: "I seem to speak, it is not I, about me, it is not about me … What am I to do, what shall I do? How proceed? By aporia? … I say aporia without knowing what it means.” — Samuel Beckett, Unnamable

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RIP Dale Pendell (1947-2018). Like Jenny Diski and Oliver Sacks, he wrote about his dying. He called his notes on dying Pharmako/Thanatos, where Pharmako is the gift and the poison, and Thanatos is our end. https://t.co/T9F2Bin3HM

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@biancastone @OdeAndPsyche Wow. loved that.

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Good teachers are like artists who are capable of
using other people as their ‘medium’.
— Anton Ehrenzweig, 1965

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@misen__ He succeeded by getting in the insurance business. Clever.

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It must be abstract: "The intelligence that is attributed to a machine abstracts from the fact that the intelligence of a living being is possessed, not just expressed." — Paul Weiss

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Failing humor: "if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent." — Alan Turing

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@PessoaBrain thank you.