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Small Talk, book release

My new collection of aphorisms, Small Talk, is now available. Ebook versions can be downloaded for free here. If you prefer a physical copy, you can go here and Lulu Press will make one just for you.

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This is a work of nonsense, meant to be used only for divination. Any resemblance to actual reality is entirely hallucinatory.

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here are some early reviews:

the blank spaces contain much wisdom ~ Lao Tzu

it made me wish I never learned how to read ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

it is not short enough ~ H. L. Men...

Wee Wisdom (6)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*traditionalism is a desire for past noveltyloved ones and zeroesif i could go back in time and talk to my eighteen year old self i would tell him to go forward in time and ask what my current self would say to him; or i would tell him to go back in time and ask what our eight year old self would say about going back in time to the wombi never learned helplessnessmagical realism is existence fan...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*make myself small to fit into my terrariumslet thine eye be single to what cannot be dividedthe tao hides in the yang and shines in the yintherefore the sagesees in plain hidingsatya yugas within kali yugas, golden ages inside rusty cagesthere is no external limit to what a man can achieve. this is what is often mistaken in gods for omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence.flying sauce...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*beauty is the best, envy is the worstGod is beyond inhuman comprehensioncreation is half wheat and half breadthe satanic plan is both to remove all barriers to entry and to prevent all possibility of escapelivestock blocking traffic gives me hopesmoking is a breathing exercise, for both you and the plantsaving the appearances so i can spend them laterit is strange that ...

God, the creative entropist

Bruce Charlton wrote a piece today about how entropy is usually thought of only from a materialist perspective, and how it should instead be conceived from a more fundamental one, that of the relations between beings.

This is close to my own view, although I would probably have called the fundamental perspective the Will, but really to say one thing is to say the other, because there is not only one, but many wills, and thus, inevitable relation.

Considered from a purely materialist point of view,...

Wee Wisdom (3)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*have you ever done something for fun? that's what an illusion is, etymosophically speaking. a labor of love. yet another word neutered and defanged in support of meaninglessness.by preparing sourdough starter you are literally making a primordial soup for the spirits of rising to incarnate into. my wife makes the bread. i elaborate on the cosmology implied in bread making. domestic division of labor.i am...

Wee Wisdom (2)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*men do more interesting things, women are more interesting.procrastination is the time between sowing and germination.the devil is terminally online, the god selectively sothere is nothing great about a blank page. when something is written, which means something else cannot be written instead, is when the magic happens, and where the value is. the same is true of being as such versus manifested...

A Dialogue on Dread

The two men retired to the library, leaving the women to the smoking room and the staff to the dishes. Now, my dear friend, come take a look at this, A beautiful bottle, and no doubt the contents are of even superior quality, Yet you will not drink it, Not at this time, no, Precisely, and that is part of the reason why I have invited you here.

My curiosity concerning your abstention is merely due to its relation with your new found demeanour, and I believe the demeanour to be the cause of the ab...

A Lecture on Literacy

There was a letter in the mailbox. An actual letter, not a bank statement or a bill. It was personally handwritten and placed inside a particular envelope, chosen with care, light green in color. It was addressed to Ferdinand, which was not his real name, but rather the name with which he signed his life’s work, a work he never showed to anyone, and so it was indeed very strange, not only to receive a letter in an age that no longer sends them, but that it was addressed to a name that no one sho...

Wee Wisdom (1)

the first instalment of the new series. the content will be much the same: random nonsense. the name was chosen, ultimately, by my wife. i think she means it to refer, not to the quips, but to the quipper

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published*you don't hear much of anything anymoreartistic dynasties are very rare, and probably rarer now than ever. the only prominent one i can think of is the Bach family. that was a long time ago and even then, after ...