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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...time I realized the third song was going to do the same thing, and the fourth, and the fifth - all the way to the end of the album, in fact, just like the live shows - I was a total fan. I heard it all there, the cosmic blend of influences: the Beatles, the Stooges, the MC5, Brian Wilson, "Be My Baby," Little Richard, the whole history of Western...
...connect with every section of your mind in some manner, though it may not leave every part entirely sated. Fisher credited this “alternation of heavy and light material” in the film to the Taoist concept of “tai chi—the cosmic dialogue of yin and yang.” Indeed, he said, many of the film’s insights have their groundings in Eastern forms of philosophy and religion: “The Eastern systems of thought are most consistent and practical in their approaches to existential...
...existence is becoming hard to dispute. The first hint came a couple of years ago, when two independent teams of astronomers tried to calibrate the cosmic expansion using Type Ia supernovas, a kind of exploding star whose intrinsic brightness is highly consistent. Comparing the known brightness of such a supernova with how bright it appears in the sky gives a good measure of how far away it is--and thus how long ago in cosmic history its light was emitted. Then, by measuring how fast each supernova is moving away from Earth in the overall ballooning of the universe...
...Does anybody else miss Jerri? Episode 10 had a lean, mean, "Sopranos" quality to it. It was an hour of hunger and craven desperation, of crumbling spirits - Elisabeth, weepy and irritable, is the new deathwatch person now that Nick is gone - and it all had a certain sense of cosmic justice. At the Tribal Council, Ogakor returned to the strategic straight and narrow by sparing Amber (whose bland good looks are holding so well she may in fact be animatronic) and resuming its systematic elimination of the ex-Kuchas. Elisabeth is clearly being set up as next...