Archive for the ‘words are swords’ Category

I really really wish

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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

Goldsmith on Descartes

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

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.)

Servicio de Orientación y Planificación Profesional

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Si tu trabajo no te llena, hazte cocinero.

Arrob@ poétic@

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

bajam@r
pleam@r

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arrob@s

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pleam@r

Fake antithesis

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

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.

Nueva figura lógica

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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.

Insomniac

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

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.

Nowhere is now here

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

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

Sweeping statements

Monday, January 25th, 2010

It’s very difficult to criticise sweeping statements.

Tiger hits a birdie

Friday, December 11th, 2009

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?