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...enough that we distort the world with notions of cause and effect, presence and absence, positive and negative, either and or—conventions of thought which become fetters when naturalized as logic. After the organic joy of thought has been exterminated, we drive the mental engine onward through the formal ruse of argument. Our very ideas are bellicose, formed to know their enemies and seek to destroy them. Our delight is in the death-march of the argument over the novel notion, the heady idea: the sound of data crunching and uncertainty crushed beneath jackbooted convention. We drown...
...treated as ends, they can be deep, dignified and enormous; when they are forced to compete with one another in a crass market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse (owing in no small part to the largesse of the Harvard College Research Program). When the fall comes, the weak and infirm shall have to be weeded out; but in the meantime, I’ll luxuriate in the abundance and allow my wascally thoughts to combine and proliferate...
...than Ralston; the rock is said to be big enough to fill the bed of a pickup. Ralston, now hospitalized in serious condition in Grand Junction, Colo., hasn't spoken publicly of his ordeal. His family has issued a statement attributing his survival to Ralston's "strong physical and mental condition...
...You’re so tired at that point,” Skey said. “It’s basically adrenaline. Your mental capacity comes in as a factor...
...Courtney’s toughness—that’s what it really came down to,” Harvard coach Gordon Graham said. “She had a great game, but there’s more to it than the shots. It’s the mental toughness. Bergman’s got that over anyone practically...