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Didacticism gone awry

By Kalani Perry | Published: September 24, 2011
“Out of sight, out of mind.” “Yeah, thanks, Aristotle. If you want to inflict your aphorisms on me, can you indulge me and make sure they’re not platitudes or stereotypes? Especially one so easily refuted with, ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder.’ Which, for the record, also would make me want to puke if someone said [...]
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Love letter

By Kalani Perry | Published: April 16, 2010
My love (light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul-apologies to Nabakov), This meeting is boring. And my thoughts, as they often do, return to you. What a two weeks, two months, two lives this has been. Who knows why anything happens? I’m so glad you come from a skeptical, rational place, [...]
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    What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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