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nice 'un
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"[...] now we are going to be finished off by Fannie Mae.<br />
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I dont even know what Fannie Mae is. Apparently, its not a bank and its not a building society, but it seems to have been buying mortgages and debts from various institutions. And then, one day, it appears to have woken up and thought: Oops. Quite how it was allowed to get in this mess, Im not sure. Did nobody think it odd that a mysterious organisation was stomping around the world buying debt? Did nobody stop for a moment and wonder if perhaps Fannie Mae was a home for mentals? I mean, were talking here about an operation named after the human bottom. How did it sign its deals? With crayons?<br />
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Seriously, if I set up a business called Arse and went around buying outstanding loans on the nations never-never-land three-piece suites, I wouldnt get very far before someone with a soothing voice and a corduroy jacket put me in a padded room for the rest of time."<br />
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Jeremy Clarkson <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article4742406.ece">in der Online-Times</a>
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2008-09-28T22:01:00Z
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Ah humanity!
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"If our young people are toiling their way through their educational careers while reading less than ever before for their own pleasure or enlightenment, why be surprised? No one has ever taught them that books can be read for pleasure or enlightenmentor for any other purpose than to be exposed as the coded rationalization for the illegitimate powers of the ruling classes that they really are."<br />
James Bowman: <a href="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google">Is Stupid Making Us Google?</a>
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2008-09-22T13:32:00Z
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Satz und Sieg
http://syro0.twoday.net/stories/5177573/
"The Internet owes its success to two pillars of human activity: masturbation and procrastination."<br />
(<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2199368">Chris Wilson, slate.com</a>)
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2008-09-08T18:02:00Z
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Laugh, will you
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so nahe an meiner Weltsicht wie nur irgend möglich, folgendes Zitat von Michail Bachtin:<br />
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"True ambivalent and universal laughter does not deny seriousness but purifies and completes it. Laughter purifies from dogmatism, from the intolerant and the petrified; it liberates from fanaticism and pedantry, from fear and intimidation, from didacticism, naïveté and illusion, from the single meaning, the single level, from sentimentality. Laughter does not permit seriousness to atrophy and to be torn away from the one being, forever incomplete. It restores this ambivalent wholeness."<br />
[Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais and His World. Translated by Helene Iswolsky.Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1984, p. 122f.]
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2008-06-08T20:54:00Z
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Toute proche
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"La poésie est une vision du monde obtenue par un effort, quelquefois épuisant, de la volonté tendue, arcboutée. La poésie est volontaire. Elle n'est pas un abandon, une entrée libre et gratuite par les sens; elle ne se confond pas avec la sensualité, mais, s'opposant à elle, naissait, par exemple, le samedi, quand on sortait pour nettoyer les chambres, les fauteuils et les chaises de velours rouge, les glaces dorées et les tables d'acajou, dans le pré vert tout proche."<br />
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Jean Genet: Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs. Paris: Gallimard 1976, p. 260
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2008-05-03T14:09:00Z
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Satz und Sieg
http://syro0.twoday.net/stories/4873576/
Carol Midgley mit einem großartigen Understatement <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3758408.ece">in der Times</a> (ganz unten, obwohl der Abschnitt über Schimpfwörter auch empfehlenswert ist) -- zitiert <i>in toto</i>:
<blockquote>My local paper reveals that Gordon Lorenz, who co-wrote the 1980 No1 hit There's No One Quite Like Grandma, sung by the St Winifred's School Choir, Stockport, has been fined £200 for twice failing to use the poop-scoop while out walking his dog, Bertie, in Llandudno. There's no punchline. I just thought you'd like to know.</blockquote>
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2008-04-19T10:57:00Z
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Making the self
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"We are a process which has its genesis in roles, but grows into a characteristically human combination of self-consciousness and skill. The central self is not a substance but an effect, successful process. [...] We cannot strive for authenticity, for a real self. Like happiness, it seems to come <i>en passant</i>. We act in the world inevitably within a matrix of our own interests. We hope these will yield a genuine self, but no inevitability governs the process." <br />
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Richard A. Lanham: The Motives of Eloquence. Literary rhetoric in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 1976, p.156
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2008-04-10T09:07:00Z
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Sounds familiar
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"... Democracy will have none of your classics, it hates allusions and quotations; it likes a writer to be 'clear and sensible' ... the new literature will be a thing of loud, bawling books, shrieking headlines, and slovenly grammar."<br />
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H.G. Wells: "The Literature of the Future" in: <i>Pall Mall Gazette</i>, 11.10. 1893<br />
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[zitiert nach: John Lawton: "Introduction" in: H.G.Wells: When The Sleeper Wakes. London: J.M. Dent, 1999. p.xxix]<br />
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-- Ich hoffe (und bin mir fast sicher), daß Wells' Implikation, die Demokratie selbst sei es, die große Kunst verhindere, Unsinn ist. Tatsächlich hege ich den Verdacht, daß die Schuld nicht bei der Demokratie liegt, sondern bei einem ausschließlich marktorientierten Kunstbetrieb, der glaubt, den Leuten alles einzigartige vorenthalten und einen tatsächlich in dieser Form nicht existenten allgemeinen Geschmack bedienen zu müssen. Davon abgesehen allerdings scheint mir Wells durchaus richtig zu liegen.
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2008-04-02T19:46:00Z
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Thought of the Day
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"Ich denke, daß es früher so war, daß die Leute selber ihre Sprache erfunden haben. Es tauchten neue Begriffe auf und die Schriftsteller mußten bloß zuhören und hatten ihr Rohmaterial, wenn sie wollten; heute hingegen erfinden ein paar Werbeleute ein paar Catchphrases und das war's dann. Die Leute wissen ja nichtmal mehr, wie die Dinge heißen. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, wie das mittelfristig besser werden soll."<br />
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Hans Wilhelm Volkner im Interview mit der Zeitschrift <i>Das Echo</i>, 17.8.1998 <br />
[zitiert nach Jess A. Hawkes: Corporate Linguistics and the Loss of Language. Connecticut University Press: 2005, p. 122f.]
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2008-03-28T11:09:00Z
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Tribute (?)
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"Le laudi - disse - che il signor Magnifico ed io avemo date alle donne, ed ancora molte altre, erano notissime, però sono state superflue. Chi non sa che senza le donne sentir non si po contento o satisfazione alcuna in tutta questa nostra vita, la quale senza esse saria rustica e priva d'ogni dolcezza, e più aspera che dell'alpestre fiere? Chi non sa che le donne sole levano de' nostri cori tutti li vili e bassi pensieri, gli affanni, le miserie e quelle turbide tristezze che così spesso loro sono compagne?"<br />
B. Castiglione, <i>Il libro del Cortegiano</i>, III, 51.<br />
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Scheint, als würde jeder Versuch zu widersprechen vergeblich sein, nicht?
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2008-02-23T17:57:00Z
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Satz und Sieg
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<b>"Life is an <i>opera buffa</i>. Leave tragedy to those whose ignorance of life bids them believe it exists."</b><br />
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Die Figur "Da Ponte" (angelehnt an den historischen Lorenzo Da Ponte) im Zwiegespräch mit Henry James (ditto), in: <br />
Anthony Burgess' <i>On Mozart. A Paean for Wolfgang</i>, New York: Ticknor & Fields 1991, p. 91
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2007-10-11T17:43:00Z
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Beware of the Internets
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"There is something Orwellian about the management-speak on social networking sites: Change My Top Friends, View All of My Friends and, for those times when our inner Stalins sense the need for a virtual purge, Edit Friends. With a few mouse clicks one can elevate or downgrade (or entirely eliminate) a relationship."<br />
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[Christine Rosen: Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism]<br />
Mehr <a href="http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/17/rosen.htm">hier</a>
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2007-09-24T14:43:00Z
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Satz und Sieg
http://syro0.twoday.net/stories/4198836/
"I love it, you know, to irritate everybody. Ultimately, they're gonna put me against a cellophane wall and shoot me from both sides. The communists and the capitalists. I love it." <br />
--- Billy Wilder<br />
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[im Interview mit Michel Ciment, "Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man", zu finden auf der Bonus DVD der neuen Criterion Edition von Wilders <i>Ace In The Hole</i> (1951)]
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2007-08-25T23:54:00Z
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Dem ist kaum allzu viel hinzuzufügen
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"Chomsky pronounced that knowledge of grammatical construction constituted the true mastery of a language. 'With a complete list of terminal strings all the basic sentences possible can be worked out.' I am not happy about this. Chinese and Malay do not impose this kind of obligation. Vocabulary is far more important in both than rules of syntax. Grammar has its own fascination and, in a ghostly manner, its own peculiar truth. [...] There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of vocabulary, or lexis, requires before it can become vertebrate and walk the earth. But it is probably unrealistic to stress its importance. It leads us to a world of dreams:<br />
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When I corkled the veriduct in morful wurtubs and, prexing the coroflock, chonted the furpool by crerlicoking the fark, I wottled the duneflow by fonking the raketoppled purnlow and then asserticled the prert (in both slonces) through a clariform rarp of werthearkers.<br />
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That is good grammar. But it is not anything else."<br />
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[Anthony Burgess. A Mouthful of Air. Language and languages, especially English. London: Hutchinson 1992, p. 117-18]
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2007-08-14T20:14:00Z
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Out of context !
http://syro0.twoday.net/stories/4105372/
Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed...<br />
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H.M. - M.D. - Ch. 94<br />
[will jemand raten?]
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