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Subject, Conversation, and Shape: An Analysis of Idiotarianism

Humanity 101, Masterclass, June 31st, 2010 Conversation is a sort of art, as well as a functional mechanism, with which people communicate ideas to each other and with which they also perform analyses: of the specific subjects at hand, and of the other person or people with whom they are conversing. In a recent conversation, my [...]
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The Egg-Woman and the Fish

The market by the river looked almost like a giant ship; bread and meats at one tip, flowers at the other, and in between an oblong mass of tables with their stacks of fruits and vegetables. Early summer meant a surplus of cherries, though not the sour kind, and strawberries, though the rains had battered [...]
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Swallow it Down

I grew up being, for the most part, a vegetarian whose diet was never riddled with the sorts of nightmarish foods that children are typically forced to eat. You know, the occasional bit of gizzard or tongue, or the venison burger when dad either went hunting or relieved his vague sense of bare-chested masculinity by [...]
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What is it with the Wet?

Sometimes masochism is less pleasant than at other times. Of course, whether it’s really pleasant at all, and how, and whether the pleasure is the experience of the masochism itself or is a separable by-product are all important if somewhat sticky issues, though they’re likely best left for a different post, at some other time, when [...]
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A Failed Audition

I’ve been to a few different auditions; some met with slight disappointment, others met with what I’d measure for myself as success, but only one in active memory that was a total and utter failure. My high school put on a musical when I was but a freshman, and very impressed with my own ability [...]
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