More specifically concerning: pragmatism
an Observation (1)
30 January 2003, around 11.10.
Oh, elegies are easy, I suppose. It is simple to sing of sorrows, and tumble through agonies towards some great katharsis, as though every strong emotion needs its purge. All happinesses are alike, the knowing novelist intones. But this very violence in ourselves, this need for grief, for rage, for some last word, even to […]
Directions to Servants
1 April 2004, around 19.01.
lessons for masters
pullover
8 August 2012, around 8.43.
Annoyed at having first to turn his pullovers the right side out every time he puts them on, he decides to turn them around as soon as he has taken them off. Surely, this is rational. But since this decision does not override the decision automatically to turn out his pullover when he puts it […]
explicatio
30 April 2017, around 18.00.
Diogenes the cynic, radical pragmatist.