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Blumenberg’s Metaphorology

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:58 +0000

Two new Hans Blumenberg books are out in English translation, both short: Paradigms for a Metaphorology (and Care Crosses the River (1987). The second one is more aphoristic than anything else I’ve read by him and seems very mysterious at first glance (Stanford’s back-cover comment about how this book “eschews academic ponderousness” is probably not

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After the Sophomore’s Work

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:58 +0000

This doesn’t really bother me emotionally, but I think it’s a pretty dangerous fallacy to say that as you get older, things don’t hit you the way they did when you were younger. I hear this so frequently from all angles (lit, music, film, you name it), and to me it seems like nothing other

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Gene Wolfe Challenge Won!

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:58 +0000

I’ve been tardy in mentioning it, but a reader going by the sobriquet “Dave Tallman” has posted a very convincing explanation of Gene Wolfe’s cryptic Seven American Nights, and in doing so has answered the challenge I made nearly a year ago. Bravo, Dave Tallman! In doing so, not only has he made the story

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Nietzsche on the Passions

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:57 +0000

In detail, the following must be distinguished: 1. the dominating passion, which even brings with it the supremest form of health; here the co-ordination of the inner systems and their operation in the service of one end is best achieved-but this is almost the definition of health! 2.

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Who Cares If You Read?

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:57 +0000

I posted that excerpt from the inflammatory (for sufficiently small values of inflammatory) intro to Steven Moore’s book only as a gag, since people like Steve Donoghue have said much more about it than I wish to. (However! In a rebuke to Moore, his elevation of the Velvet Underground as too-avant-for-Ashbery has just been answered

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Max Neumann: Animalinside

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:14:57 +0000

(I recently wrote an overview of Krasznahorkai for The Quarterly Conversation, which may help give some context to the themes here.) Animalinside, a short work which is published as part of the Cahiers series on writing and translation, is a formal experiment for Krasznahorkai. Krasznahorkai wrote a text to accompany a drawing by Max Neumann, and Neumann

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Stock market buying and selling tips

admin — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:48:38 +0000

When it comes to placing an order, there are lots of options for selling. The one that comes to mind is GTC (Good til Cancel), GTEM (Good til end of month), and GTD (Good til Date). Therefore, I decided to ask my broker how I will be charged. This is the answer I got. If

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Motorola DECT 6.0 Digital Cordless 4 Handset Phone & Answering System

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:00:01 +0000

Attention, everyone currently embroiled in scandal. Make apologies easier with four phone handsets! Attention Brett Favre, Tim Profitt, Charlie Sheen, and anyone else currently feeling some heat for doing incredibly dumb things they shouldn’t have done.

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Purchasing mutual funds tips

admin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:10:53 +0000

I purchase both mutual funds and ETF’s, but I will talk about how I purchase mutual funds. When it comes to individual investors purchasing mutual funds, he/she will often buy the ones that have a history of high returns. Unfortunately, this often does not equal high returns. Therefore, I will provide insight into what I

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ETF’s understanding tracking error

admin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:50:24 +0000

When it comes to purchasing ETF’s, many people assume that tracking an index is fairly straightforward. Unfortunately, it is not for many. When it comes to tracking an index with less than 100 companies, tracking the index should be fairly easy. Furthermore, the tracking error maybe minimal.

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