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July 08, 2012

Limerick master Edward Lear celebrates his 200th birthday

From Christian Science Monitor:

This year marks the bicentenary of the man who gave us the delightful image of the owl and the pussycat who sailed away…

A good day to write a limerick!

I think that for anyone who writes poetry, it [the poetry] is the most important thing.

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—	Clive James, quoted in an essay by Julian Gough.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

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—	Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (via philphys)

If we take wholly away all consciousness of our actions and sensations, especially of pleasure and pain, and the concernment that accompanies it, it will be hard to know wherein to place personal identity.

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—	John Locke,An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (via philphys) For identity & belonging?

If you don’t read or write, you can’t be educated, you can’t care about anything — you’ve gotta put something in people’s heads so the metaphors bounce around and collide with each other and make new metaphors.

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