paracommunications

Religion is much easier to understand if you replace ‘I believe’ by ‘I really really wish’.

Intellectual snobs without a social site profile, blog or homepage, beware:

If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it doesn’t exist, therefore you don’t think.

(Goldsmith on Descartes.)

Si tu trabajo no te llena, hazte cocinero.

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Building on yesterday’s post, what about the following figure?

The supporting actor let me down

There’s an antithesis on the figurative plane (’supportive’, ‘let down’), but not on the thematic plane (disappointing actor).

Thus, there’s also an antithesis of sorts between the two planes, and a certain symmetry to the figure.

Para completar el oxímoron, cohabitación, paradoja y antítesis, necesitamos una figura de falsa antítesis, esto es, dos conceptos que fintan un choque, pero en el último momento se apartan. Por ejemplo:

El actor de reparto acaparó todos los premios.

Although the diagnosis wasn’t obvious for a long time, it seems that insomnia was what kept me from finding the woman of my dreams.

Searching for the nowhere domain, it turns out that www.nowhere.com points to www.NowHere.de.

It’s very difficult to criticise sweeping statements.

Tiger Woods announced today that he is taking an indefinite break from golf to ‘focus [his] attention on being a better husband, father, and person’.

So was his wife upset because he was spending too much time away from home playing golf?