“Nobody else has my idea, but many people can see the same thing. Nobody else has my pain. Someone may have sympathy with me, but still my pain belongs to me and his sympathy to him.”
—Gottlob Frege Thoughts
January 2012
13 posts
I think some people fail to interpret me as genuine instead of a bitch.
I can’t say they’re wrong, but I’ll favor the loyalty over the gloss.
1930
The Gaslight Anthem
Nobody does do it like me anymore.
“And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom our culture has trained to see jokes as entertainment and entertainment as reassurance. It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get — the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke — that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home”
—David Foster Wallace (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
