Posts by Kracklite
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Oh dear, you poor thing!
Let's see, "ass-burger" = "good faith"? Continued use of scare quotes. Nope, does not compute. Sorry.
splendid wheeze
Only if you mean "gasping for breath".
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near esoteric mystery to me. I can’t really get past it.
Indeed. Quod erat demonstrandum.
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Dribblette, like all trolls, is most definitely not asking any question in good faith.
Mediocrity, as Arthur Conan Doyle once put it, knows nothing higher than itself. This troll is, typically, one of those mediocre individuals who believes that certain people have elected themselves as his superiors and wants to trip them up somehow with some clever little paradox that will “reveal” their pretence, as he sees it.
Now Dribblette is getting frustrated because we all know what he’s playing at and nobody wants to play his game according to his rules.
I expect that his next post could be paraphrased as “Waaah!” Actually, that’s the essence of the last one…
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Terrific vid...
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Islander,
Been a pleasure, and off to bed myself!
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Islander,
Now that's what I've found fascinating about some science fiction - how a different sensorium has resulted in a different form of consciousness as well. Not too many authors have really gone into depth on those terms (pun unintentional)but a few have. I've seen some CGI visualisations of how a sperm whale for example might hunt using its sonar (and there's been speculation, that being the loudest creature on the planet, it can use its sonar as a kind of stun gun)... There was an idea previously that sight was an active sense, that the eye sent out corpuscles and received them back, rather like a radar - now that was wrong in physical terms, but it does imply that seeing is an active process, because perceiving is a function of thinking. (There's rather a good book, The Eye: A Natural History by Simon Ings.) It's rather pertinent because scientists looking at the issue of consciousness generally focus (also an unintentional pun... but significant nonetheless that it is a visual simile) how the brain makes visual data into experienced images as offering clues into how the brain creates experience.
Now I'm going to have reveries on H. G. Wells' use of sight and observation as his anchoring images (ahem) in the opening sentences of The War of the Worlds...
...almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water... intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes...
The conflation of a biologist's microscopes and the Martians' telescopes is really very clever, and very, very ironic. The Martians are predators - and rather like cephalopods too in form...
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Islander,
Well, first to apologise, it's late and it's been a long week (marking a pile of assignments 13.5 centimetres thick has just been completed - yes I did measure it, - and then there's the smaller pile 1.8cm thick yet to be tackled, which is almost a relief... and perversely, I enjoyed it)... my brain is fried, and now pickled, while I watch the DVD of Caprica to relax.
Well, ammonites are so beautiful, as are trilobites... (I've a fossil of a Phacops rana, known for its extraordinary eyes, on my bookshelf), but the spiral of an ammonite shell, and that of a nautilus is so rich a metaphor - not only in its creation of new chambers as it grows and outgrows its shell, but of its anachronism too, its anatomical primitivism - the nautilus's eyes function like pinhole cameras, having no lenses. How can you not make something of that?
A gentle image that, the segmented spiral, but the hyperbola, well that suggests vertigo, having no end at all...
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Sacha,
Indeed. All three intimate infinity - the ammonite, in describing a spiral, the shoe horn and umbrella in manifesting hyperboloids. Truly sublime.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to linger,
Or, you might consider this, in relation to Offspring of Little Dribble. However, I do disagree with:
..a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood
… as no evidence of adulthood has been presented.
Ah, sorry, I’m being far too serious about this. Really, go ahead and mock, everyone. I’ll get out the popcorn. It’s been a long week and I deserve some schadenfreude.
can anyone please begin, to address the question plainly posed?
By the way, do you know anything about the use of commas? Once we get that sorted, we can start work on apostrophes.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to ,
If it were asked in good faith, maybe - but it is not. What makes you think you deserve any consideration or respect? No, don't answer that, the surges of ennui are overwhelming as it is. It has nothing to do with the present discussion - I suggest that you leave non-sequiturs to professional Surrealists. Ammonite. Shoe-horn. Umbrella.