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KLIMT for Those Who Can | Textasy

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KLIMT for Those Who Can. June 29, 2010 @ 6:23 pm. 183; { BIOGRAPHICAL TEXT. Starring the brilliant John Malkovitch, is an aesthete’s wet dream, a giddy intellectual’s amalgam of perception and its multiplicities: invented, imagined perception(s); remembered, failed, mistaken perceptions; interpreted, mirrored perceptions. Perceptions defined and redefined, regulated, resented, defiantly protected, erroneously projected. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).

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If There’s a Textual Heaven | Textasy

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If There’s a Textual Heaven. November 26, 2007 @ 3:15 pm. 183; { LINGUISTIC/VERBAL TEXT. Some of us escaped the affliction that is the New England dialect, despite that we grew up immersed in it and by it. Yet there is an appreciation for the unique sounds, missing or occluded ‘r’s in the last position, and iconoclastic coinage of words to function for expression. If there’s a linguistic heaven, and if my fellow speakers of such isolated eccentricity, really, are anywhere in the afterlife, I hope t...

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The Garden [Metaphor] as Text | Textasy

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The Garden [Metaphor] as Text. January 24, 2008 @ 12:47 pm. 183; { ALL TEXT. Image: Maxfield Parrish; Adam and Eve. Great beings die every day. In the past three years a great and grumpy cat named Starbeam, a perfect creature named Panther, and a beautiful Chow being named Gibbous died tough deaths and two of my first loves died–at only 46! We are stardust, we are golden/We are ten billion year old carbon/And we got to get ourselves back to the garden…. 8221;Garden” Pearl Jam. Garden for’s estate. This i...

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Town Dump as Text | Textasy

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Town Dump as Text. November 24, 2007 @ 7:36 pm. 183; { TEXTUALITY. Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology – that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. I forget about it until I make a requisite visit, but I. This single moment afforded an ambivalent response on our part, to have to give up the study was terrifically disappointing, but to get the opportunity to hurl one more item into the crowded cave...

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If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Look Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore | Textasy

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If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Look Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore. January 24, 2008 @ 11:37 am. 183; { LINGUISTIC/VERBAL TEXT. Censorship as Social Text. Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. Alfred Whitney Griswold, New York Times. Okay So this is an exaggeration. Silly hyperbole. Bad analogy. Or is it? This is what is at the core of censorship, really. Control. Or...Milit...

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Nic Can Make Even Questionable Art Look Good | Textasy

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Nic Can Make Even Questionable Art Look Good. November 19, 2007 @ 5:23 pm. 183; { Intertextuality. Great working concept (based on “The Golden Man”) but no. Even Then again, Lee Tamahori doesn’t seem to be any kind of Ridley Scott, either. And though there are a couple of ooh cinematic moments, Philip K Dick is likely rattling from whatever parallel universe he now hails, shouting for someone to pleeease tighten the seams on this one. Nic’s character, Cris, splitting into multiples. 8220;There’s an...

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The Collective UNconscious: Mindless Society in Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian” | Textasy

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The Collective UNconscious: Mindless Society in Ray Bradbury’s The Pedestrian. December 27, 2007 @ 8:06 pm. 183; { Great Writers. It is unheard of to be walking without purpose. It is unheard of to be walking to get some air, for as the metallic voice reasons, he has air in his house. It is unacceptable to be out just walking. Hands up at the officer’s command, noted to be unemployed because he named his profession as writer, Mead is grilled (and the repetition reveals the absurdity):. 8221; [para.15].

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Indirect Communication as Reality TV Strategy Imperative | Textasy

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Indirect Communication as Reality TV Strategy Imperative. December 25, 2007 @ 7:12 pm. 183; { Uncategorized. Kierkegaard’s theory of indirect communication which was and is still much more interesting kept to the philosophers and their writings–comes in handy for reality TV competitions. Without calling it outright lying (and hence indirectly communicating at that), we might acknowledge the sneakiest reality TV gaming strategy indirect communication. Instead, the successful gamer, not knowing him- or her...

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The Dear John Series | Textasy

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The Dear John Series. May 26, 2012 @ 8:55 pm. 183; { BIOGRAPHICAL TEXT. Some [or mostly] posthumous addressees and what this writer would say. [Or, lines of text to show how utterly clever i am.]. Dear John Updike,. I climbed the bookcase to read you. A follower since 1970. Dear Mr. Hemingway,. I learned the craft [or. As you called it] of aiming for one true sentence from you. Dear Steve Jobs,. Bet you have already invented something for between-world communications. A PC user nonetheless. Fill in your ...