tenuous resurrection

tiresome names

'The 1st of May was approaching, and there was talk of a monster demonstration in which both the C.N.T. and the U.G.T. were to take part. The C.N.T. leaders, more moderate than many of their followers, had long been working for a reconciliation with the U.G.T.; indeed the keynote of their policy was to try and form the two blocks of unions into one huge coalition. The idea was that the C.N.T. and U.G.T. should march together and display their solidarity. But at the last moment the demonstration was called off. It was perfectly clear that it would only lead to rioting. So nothing happened on 1 May. It was a queer state of affairs. Barcelona, the so-called revolutionary city, was probably the only city in non-Fascist Europe that had no celebrations that day. But I admit I was rather relieved. The I.L.P. contingent was expected to march in the P.O.U.M. section of the procession, and everyone expected trouble...'

comma problems

"Cineva, un nebun, îndragostit de o viziune de arta, a schimbat într-o noapte poarta teatrului si a pus o poarta noua"

aesthetic consistency

'...nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.” It says writers should use a semicolon or a period instead of a comma in that case if there’s no and or but.'

changement phonétique

'...la Sarre tente de redorer son blason en tirant parti de sa proximité géographique avec la France, voulant devenir «un pont avec l'Allemagne et une porte vers la France». Une initiative unique outre-Rhin. La Sarre est d'ailleurs le Land allemand qui compte la plus grande proportion de professeurs de français dans son système scolaire, et entretient des relations étroites avec la Lorraine.'

There’s a cat on the mat

 
'Our approach to thinking, from the early days of the computer era, focused on the question of how to represent the knowledge about which thoughts are thought, and the rules that operate on that knowledge. So when advances in technology made artificial intelligence a viable field in the 1940s and 1950s, researchers turned to formal symbolic processes'....'While the successes behind subsymbolic artificial intelligence are impressive, there is a catch that is very nearly Faustian: The terms of success may prohibit any insight into how thinking “works,” but instead will confirm that there is no secret to be had—at least not in the way that we’ve historically conceived of it. It is increasingly clear that the Cartesian model is nothing more than a convenient abstraction, a shorthand for irreducibly complex operations that somehow (we don’t know how) give the appearance, both to ourselves and to others, of thinking. New models for artificial intelligence ask us to, in the words of philosopher Thomas Metzinger, rid ourselves of an “Ego Tunnel,” and understand that, while our sense of self dominates our thoughts, it does not dominate our brains.' 

Accidental Buddhist

'...Few writers have cut through themselves, their assumptions, their romances, so unsentimentally as the intermittently reclusive Frenchman, who notes in the same book that “We ought at least, for prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people’s views are never in accordance with our own.” And after pages and pages on what he so Buddhistically calls “the variability of the self” and on the tenacity with which we cling to an image of someone even as that person is constantly changing, he simply concludes, “What one knows does not belong to oneself,” as if placing the entire frame of his project in a building without a roof.'

Discusser

'All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past
That youth and observation copied there,
And thy commandment all alone shall live
Within the book and volume of my brain,
Unmix'd with baser matter.'

oceanul oval

L’Isolement

Cependant, s’élançant de la flèche gothique,
Un son religieux se répand dans les airs ;
Le voyageur s’arrête, et la cloche rustique
Aux derniers bruits du jour mêle de saints concerts.

contrainte impossible

•   Il faut, Nathanaël, que tu brûles en toi tous les livres.

 Nathanaël, il y a d'admirables préparatifs au sommeil ; il y a d'admirables réveils ; mais il n'y a pas d'admirables sommeils, et je n'aime le rêve que tant que je le crois réalité. Car le plus beau sommeil ne vaut pas le moment où l'on se réveille.

ICCS

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ICTAI

I FOUND the phrase to every thought    I ever had, but one;