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habitual construction of imagination

Considering.

iambarr | December 12, 2009

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. -Alfred North Whitehead

I love John Barth

iambarr | November 21, 2009

“Fiction about fiction, stories about storytelling, have an ancient history, so much so that I am convinced that if the first story ever told began with the words ‘Once upon a time,’ probably the second story ever told began with the words ‘Once upon a time there was a story that began Once upon a [...]

and while we’re on the subject..

iambarr | August 22, 2009

149. EXT. “BARBARY COAST” – NIGHT Frank finally gets to where he’s going – a corner bar – and skids to a hault. They all pile out. Frank grabs Jeffrey. FRANK Come on. I wancha to meet a frienda mine. Raymond, get enough beer for Ben too. RAYMOND Okay Frank. FRANK (to Jeffrey) What kinda [...]

And so it begins:

iambarr | June 27, 2009

Bring on the eschaton! It’s not that I want humanity to die under the relentless stranglehold of silicon-based death machines. It’s just that I love science fiction. And I, for one, bow to our new carnivorous overlords. Speaking of science fiction, this is my favorite quote of the day: “If you look out into the [...]

Schizopolis. A movie everyone should see.

iambarr | June 24, 2009

“Dear attractive woman number 2, only once in my life have I responded to a person the way I’ve responded to you, but I’ve forgotten when it was or even if it was in fact me that responded. I may not know much, but I know that the wind sings your name endlessly, although with [...]

The Metaplastic Divide (part 2)

iambarr | May 14, 2009

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those other constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back. -Joseph Cambell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

I want my CZT

iambarr | April 2, 2009

We’re living in a shop. The world is one magnificent fucking shop, and if it hasn’t got a price tag, it isn’t worth having. The Greatest freedom of all is the freedom of choice, and that’s the difference between you and me, boil. I was brought up to believe in that, and so should you, [...]

Adversaries

iambarr | March 25, 2009

“It’s a story, so I’ve personified the adversaries. But the real adversaries are almost always internal or projected.” -Douglass Rushkoff, speaking about Testament.

Temperance movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iambarr | March 22, 2009

The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States. Temperance activist Neal Dow helped force the law into existence. The passage of the law, which prohibited the sale of all alcoholic beverages except for “medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes,” quickly [...]

Conflicting Opinions

iambarr | March 22, 2009

Of Eros: “Eros makes his home in men’s hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks [...]