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Jonathan Charles Wright's Blog
http://jonathancharleswright.blogspot.com/
Jonathan Charles Wright's blog is a self-referential, self-reverential, bastion of frivolous intellectual (and pseudo-intellectual) tricks, jests, tropes, devices, thought experiments, and difficult vocabulary words. Sometimes it's even fun and interesting to read!
- Added on: Jul 7th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jonathan Wright
- Listed in: Education & Learning Humor
- Tags: humor literature philosophy vocabulary rhetoric clever
Recent Posts
E-ri-e Canal by Burl Ives
I have been listening to this song on repeat....
If you can make me rich, do not hesitate.
The felt absence of gainful employment is almost, perhaps, as bad as its felt presence. The principal, infuriating bother of a job, had or not had, is having to pay any attention to it. Jobs, like driving, are to be condemned because they make a chor...
What could you do for a million dollars?
A week ago I asked my brother if he thought he could make himself to believe that a given ordinary object were in a sealed box simply upon my asking him to, and he said he could: he would trust my testimony. So, if I said "Jeff, believe that there a...
A reply to Dillard.
Read this bit from Dillard today:Once, when the pond was younger and the algae had not yet taken over, I saw an amazing creature. At first all I saw was a slender motion. Then I saw that it was a wormlike creature swimming in the water with a strong,...
Hello and Jon, on the floor.
This morning I petted Hello, the cat my family feeds. I happened upon it as it lay lounging in the sunlight, like pagan royalty. Without explanation I flopped prone down next to it, and extended my hand. Hello took little notice, and continued to ser...
Quotation of the Day.
"If you don't feel happy when you're reading or when you're writing, of if you don't feel greatly moved, then you are not really reading or writing. The whole thing is merely reading, I mean for examination marks, and that, of course--I won't say th...
