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...squeezing significance out of the parallels between the words “fucking” and “mindfucking.” A select few of these parallels provide insight into the phenomenon being discussed. McGinn remarks, for example, that among other things the two words share alternating connotations??an example of a “good mindfuck” being a thriller like “The Sixth Sense”—and that “just as we have to be careful who we have sex with...we have to be careful...
...says. Gibran had allegedly toyed with the idea of writing a sequel to “The Prophet” in which Almustafa is rejected by his disciples upon his return and then stoned to death by his own people. A bleak end—regardless of the Christian connotations??that expresses Gibran’s own misgivings about his ability to reconcile two cultures. Although the time for reading snippets of “The Prophet” aloud amid clouds of marijuana smoke may be over, and though much literature from the overzealous 60s is best...
Wolcowitz calls himself a “permanent bureaucrat” or a “manager”—with reservations. (The former descriptor has “bad connotations??; the latter sounds too “managerial.”) But his seat on the Allston planning committee ensures that his job extends well beyond resource allocation and course planning...
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