Sunday, December 19, 2010
Sixty Sex Tips
Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Labels:
Boston,
cambridge,
harvard square
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Left To Its Uncertain Fate
The familiar behavior of a dog who's been 'temporarily abandoned':
What is going on in a dog's mind, this dog's mind, as it waits?
Does it 'realize' that it is 'waiting'?
Does the conceptual experience 'waiting' not apply?
Does the emotional, instinctual, or physical experience of waiting differ radically from the conceptual experience 'waiting'?
Is the experience one of utter anxiety? This dog certainly appears to be anxious. Yet in a different dog it may seem as though, once its owner takes leave, there is no immediate worry or afterthought-- it simply reacts to whatever happens or comes along, e.g. other people, other animals, passing cars, a sudden itch and immediate scratch, until that time its owner reappears and life as it was is resumed.
SELECTED TRANSCRIPT
Person 1: Oooh! Who are you! Are you shy?
Person 2: He's shy
Person 1: You're gonna bite me... I know that look
Person 3: That's not a biting look
Person 2: He's shy
What is going on in a dog's mind, this dog's mind, as it waits?
Does it 'realize' that it is 'waiting'?
Does the conceptual experience 'waiting' not apply?
Does the emotional, instinctual, or physical experience of waiting differ radically from the conceptual experience 'waiting'?
Is the experience one of utter anxiety? This dog certainly appears to be anxious. Yet in a different dog it may seem as though, once its owner takes leave, there is no immediate worry or afterthought-- it simply reacts to whatever happens or comes along, e.g. other people, other animals, passing cars, a sudden itch and immediate scratch, until that time its owner reappears and life as it was is resumed.
SELECTED TRANSCRIPT
Person 1: Oooh! Who are you! Are you shy?
Person 2: He's shy
Person 1: You're gonna bite me... I know that look
Person 3: That's not a biting look
Person 2: He's shy
Labels:
cognitive categories,
dogs,
experience,
uncertainty
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Part II

What remains of the dying population of Cambodia?
One large photograph of an American actress holding an Asian child in her arms.
What remains of Tomas?
An inscription reading HE WANTED THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.
What remains of Beethoven?
A frown, an improbable mane, and a somber voice intoning "Es muss sein!"
What remains of Franz?
An inscription reading A RETURN AFTER LONG WANDERINGS.
And so on and so forth. Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
--excerpt from Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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