To Kronecker’s “God made the integers; all else is the work of man” his contemporary Weierstrass is said to have rejoined “God made power series; all else is the work of man.”
Take 38.
[the performer yodels in about eight registers] Oh NOOOO, BRO?!
[all laugh approvingly.]
And that’s what we’re really trying to do at Adventure Time, is prepare people for their own death.
The only things in the world that are designed to elicit enjoyment and only enjoyment are products, and your life is not a product; you cannot expect to unwrap it, and place it in an advantageous corner of your Docklands flat, and admire the way the halogen spots on your lighting track gleam on its sleek sides.
On the other hand, Kotsko’s entire book is written to make a case for awkwardness, and as he writes in the final chapter, awkwardness can be utopian; it can be “full of grace” and create its own spontaneous community that cuts across barriers of race and class.
But though the love to these several objects may possibly be one and the same in all cases, its operations however must be allowed to be different; for, how much soever we may be in love with an excellent surloin of beef, or bottle of Burgundy; with a damask rose, or Cremona fiddle; yet do we never smile, nor ogle, nor dress, nor flatter, nor endeavour by any other arts or tricks to gain the affection of the said beef, etc.
A reissue of a story about 30-year-old Ferdydurke, who is overwhelmed by a demonic professor who takes him back in time, plunging him into adolescence, and proceeding to expose and annihilate the frauds and shams of traditional society.
Suppose we think of a man made of water in an infinitely extended ocean of water.
But even so, he always possessed a few consistent attributes, including the fact he didn’t have much hair and he had a bit more flesh on him, giving him a jolly, almost almond-like countenance.
My conclusions: previous (but less intensive) analysis of human phys/psych is correct. The race has no built-in structures to support remote control.