February 2012
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No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
– Carl Jung (via which-witch)
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January 2012
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To College, or Not To College? →
tetw:
What higher education is really about…
The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith - A critical review of the spate of prominent attacks aimed at college education.
Learning by Degress by Rebecca Mead - A strong argument against measuring the value of a degree in purely economic terms.
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X - An anonymous instructor at a low-end college...
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To Make a Dadaist Poem
To make a Dadaist poem:
Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And...
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I don’t think of death in an obsessive way, I don’t think I do. I am more...
– —Henry Rollins, from WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE? The Personal Blog of Glen E. Friedman
I know Henry Rollins mostly from his essays and a few videos, including (of course) his interview with Rufus Wainwright. I don’t know his back catalog as well as I would like to, but I admire him...
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December 2011
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