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The Author is not Dead 9 Feb 2010 | 06:37 am
An argument against Roland Barthes' Death of the Author: rip a chapter of "Finnegans Wake", submit it to a creative writing workshop where nobody has read it, pick an arcane pseudonym, listen to the c...
artificial/natural 21 Jan 2010 | 08:28 pm
I also meditate about the city being a thing of nature, something no better than a pebble or a drop of water. I think about the city as something analogous to a beehive. The beehive is a thing of natu...
Quail eggs, Mr. Heidegger and I 17 Jan 2010 | 05:41 pm
When I was in Dumaguete, my fellows for the creative writing workshop were talking about quail eggs. I love quail eggs. But it never occurred to me -- I never dared to ask in my whole life -- where qu...
The Devil on your Back / Sleep Paralysis 17 Jan 2010 | 02:39 am
Sleep paralysis happens to me when I'm under tremendous stress. There's an entire lore on sleep paralysis, and cultures all over the world agree on one metaphor to describe it -- a demon weighing down...
Two versions of the skeptic, or why Lourd de Veyra is not funny 14 Jan 2010 | 02:49 pm
Recently, I came across a feature article entitled Lourd de Veyra on 2010: "I predict a riot". The author says, "the Philippines has always enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with misery," and proceeds ...
My Favorite Books (Tier 1) 8 Jan 2010 | 09:22 pm
I'm a bibliophile. Statistically, I'm bound to have so many favorite books that their number may equal the average books read by an average reader in his lifetime. So the way to classify my favorite ...
A History of the Future 8 Jan 2010 | 02:36 pm
The theme of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is the telling of the history of the future. It traces the decline and fall of the Galactic Empire, and the rise of a second one after a dark age of 30,00...
Time as the 4th dimension: what does it really mean? 7 Jan 2010 | 04:42 pm
It is said that time is the 4th dimension. Asked what this means, people just shrug and attribute the statement to Einstein, even though the concept was probably by Malinowski. I have often meditated...
My 10 Personal Heroes 6 Jan 2010 | 04:40 am
1. Ludwig Wittgenstein 2. David Hume 3. William James 4. Francis Bacon 5. Plato 6. Ayn Rand 7. Friedrich Nietzsche 8. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Michel de Montaigne 10. Arthur Schopenhauer None of them h...
What I'm planning to watch 5 Jan 2010 | 10:11 pm
1. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. This is the remake of Fullmetal Alchemist, following more closely the story of the original manga. 2. Gundam 00 (2nd season). I've been a Gundam fanboy since birt...
