Archive for October, 2010

An aside in re sense and nonsense, sparked from a lazy afternoon on the couch reading a book outside of my academic studies

The term “nonsense” is one of the most baffling words in our vocabulary. It has a negative quality only, like death. Nobody can explain nonsense: it can only be demonstrated. To add, moreover, that sense and nonsense are interchangeable is only to labor the point. Nonsense belongs to other worlds, other dimensions, and the gesture [...]

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