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Initial Reaction: This guy has an absurd amount of music on his computer. It looks like he just ripped all of his albums, which I guess is good for the people he’s sharing with. He’s even got some stuff ripped twice...
...Kawakubo arrived in Paris in 1981 to show her Comme des Garcons ready-to-wear collection to the Western press for the first time, critics branded her mannish coats, inky palette and distressed fabrics "post-atomic" and "Hiroshima chic." They dismissed her unfinished seams and asymmetrical cuts as absurd...
...blood pouring out of him. Even the transparent, plastic splints around both legs had assumed a red tint. I felt weak. My stomach began to twist and sweat poured all over me. I sat down on the floor because I thought I was going to be sick ... It seemed absurd--a man dying alone in his own country. I wanted to cry but I thought that I couldn't let myself and so tears just welled up in my eyelids. Now I wonder why I didn't and I'm sorry...
...Crimson survey found that 80 percent of Harvard students reported “feeling depressed” at some point in the last year. But the author confuses feeling depressed with clinical depression, a serious mental illness, and goes on to make the absurd and wholly unsupported statement that 80 percent of Harvard students “struggled with mental health problems” last year. Feeling depressed occasionally is not a mental health problem; it’s just part of being human...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...