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Lunas 20, 28.

DIARY

– YESTERDAY – Work went well, though I got soaked both coming and going. On the way back I stopped off at Barnes and Noble to do a little research for my next series of music purchases. For a month at least I’ll be focusing on Hip Hop.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #11.

CONCEPT

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Once such limits are cogently established, it becomes feasible to explore alternative accounts of mental powers capable of preserving the authority of philosophy for many of the values sustained by religious thought.

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Lunas 19, 28.

DIARY

– YESTERDAY – For some reason, I was utterly exhausted when I got home from work. I beat Final Fantasy II (starting at the last save point near the Crystal Palace) and took a nap. Jess and I had gnocchi and salad for dinner (see was of greater use in putting this together than I was… I poured the drinks and did some of the dishes) and we watched Wallace and Grommit, the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #10.

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Kant provides the necessary ground by offering romanticism a model of mind that casts scientific rationality as merely a practical mode of understanding bound to appearances and unable to reflect upon the productive energies giving value to those appearances.

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Lunas 18, 28.

DIARY

– YESTERDAY – Most eventfully, Jess completed her first day of her new job. She’s working with a Myeloma study, and will be interacting with both patients, doctors, and other coordinators. It sounds like she pretty much jumped right in.

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Two courses of inquiry.

DIARY

from Xylo, the Wolf Baron

4 MOST RECENT JOBS I’VE HAD IN MY LIFE
*Freelance Editor
*Writing Tutor
*Medical Temp
*Dishwasher

4 MOST RECENT MOVIES I’VE WATCHED OVER AND OVER
*Man on the Moon
*Young Frankenstein
*Casablanca
*Romeo and Juliet

4 MOST RECENT PLACES I HAVE LIVED
*Brooklyn, NY 11205
*Chicago, IL 60660
*Chicago, IL 60609
*Flint, MI 48506

4 MOST RECENT PLACES I’VE BEEN ON VACATION
* Chicago, IL
* Flint, MI
* Zanesville, OH
* Placencia, Belize

4 MOST TV SHOWS I’VE LOVED TO WATCH RECENTLY
* The O.C.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #9.

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If we begin our account with this project of resisting the Enlightenment in the name of Enlightenment ideals, we can see how romanticism could at once make the crucial break with traditional art and become the blocking force against which modernism in the arts would eventually define itself.

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