#strangeness — Public Fediverse posts
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HOBBES: If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some!
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-04-17)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84754…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #amusement #creativity #discovery #exploration #initiative #selfchallenging #selfstarter #strangeness #weirdness
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HOBBES: If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some!
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-04-17)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84754…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #amusement #creativity #discovery #exploration #initiative #selfchallenging #selfstarter #strangeness #weirdness
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HOBBES: If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some!
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-04-17)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84754…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #amusement #creativity #discovery #exploration #initiative #selfchallenging #selfstarter #strangeness #weirdness
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HOBBES: If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some!
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-04-17)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84754…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #amusement #creativity #discovery #exploration #initiative #selfchallenging #selfstarter #strangeness #weirdness
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HOBBES: If you couldn’t find any weirdness, maybe we’ll just have to make some!
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-04-17)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84754…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #amusement #creativity #discovery #exploration #initiative #selfchallenging #selfstarter #strangeness #weirdness
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A quotation from Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
Essay (1612), “Of Beauty,” Essays, No. 43 (1625)More about this quote: wist.info/bacon-francis/11515/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #francisbacon #beauty #disproportion #flaw #idiosyncrasy #peculiarity #strangeness
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Will thou know what wonders strange be in the land that late was found?
Will thou learn thy life to lead, by divers ways that godly be?
Will thou of virtue and vice understand the very ground?
Will thou see this wretched world, how full it is of vanity?
[Vis nova monstra, novo dudum nunc orbe reperto?
Vivendi varia uis ratione modos?
Vis qui virtutum fontes, vis unde malorum
Principia? et quantum rebus inane latet?]Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, “A Meter of Four Verses in the Utopian Tongue,” “Cornelius Graphey to the Reader” (1516 ed.) [tr. Open Utopia (Duncombe) (2012)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83122/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #discovery #exploration #foreigners #strangeness #virtue #wonder
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“You,” said Sally Mills, “are very strange.”
“Only,” said Dirk, “as strange as I need to be.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 10 (1988)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/74183/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #dirkgently #oddity #peculiarity #strangeness #weirdness
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A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin
Strange roads have strange guides.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
The Farthest Shore, “Lorbanery” [Sparrowhawk] (1972)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/7735…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulakleguin #guide #highway #journey #quest #road #strangeness
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A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
[Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition
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Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.
Completely unedited image.
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Saw this weird optical effect this morning. The lantern is an illusion, though the bracket it’s hanging on is real.
Completely unedited image.
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New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)
Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?
You might like my nonsense!
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New issue of Kzoo Star dropped :)
Enjoy some #weirdness, #strangeness, and odd #humor? Like it in a semi-flyer-newsletter format? Like it #free because the first 10 of anything on #Vella is free?
You might like my nonsense!
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Dear Friends of #swearing at ones #computer,
I hear #Cantonese is best for this. However as an #imaginary #aquatic and C #critter, I tend to blow bubbles in my human form. 😇
e.g.
1. "Bless my #footsies, the #computerverse is doing #strangeness"
2. "Oh damn, jam and sugar"
3. "Excuse me #computerperson, I need to ice #scream into a pillow... for an hour"
Sadly my #expletives are more #colourful :ablobcatcoffee: and may #frighten the #cosmos :blobangery: -
Once reductionist entanglements are sufficiently disentangled through experimental measurements or observations, science finds the summated, bigger picture of everyday reality it started from as the curiosity to look.
- Chris Handrahanhttps://www.iflscience.com/highest-energy-detection-of-quantum-entanglement-achieved-yet-70918
#StitchedInkMedia #Science #Nature #Entanglement #Reality #Environment #QuantumWorld #Quantum #Observations #Energy #Strangeness #Spooky
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Hmmmmm… Cat is showing a lot of interest in brand-new sets of #TommyJohn underwear set out for laundering! Sniffing, rolling, pawing? Maybe she’ll become a lap cat after this. Maybe that’s not a good thing! #cat #feline #underwear #strangeness
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Today's post:
🌠 Exploring 16th-century Astronomers' wondrous tales of comets fantastical descriptions of the things that lit up the Skies! ✨ https://memorablehistories.blogspot.com/2023/07/of-comets.html#folklore #blog #treatises #16thcentury #strangeness #astronomy #comets #uap #HighStrangeness #histodon #history #Comets
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This morning I was scrolling through my mastodon, as one does,and saw a pretty picture and clicked my appreciation. Drank my coffee,did my morning workout, took my vitamins and then scrolled my instagram and there was the same picture! My SM worlds collide! Now I cannot find the pic on here and am wondering if I imagined the whole thing. #strangeness #fungi #instagram #hallucinations ?
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last week's #wufo ttrpg story writing has its hooks in me today. i'm far from finished and having fun getting carried away with it. 🤣 hope to eventually share it on weird words and here 🤘🖤
@liminalearth
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my weirdo corner keeps evolving and growing. pretty soon my weirdness will start infecting other parts of the house. MWAHAHA 🤪😂
this is my hq for creating and consuming strange content. if you see me up posting at 2am, imagine me here with crazy hair, paint on my hands, wrapped in a giant blanket with snacks, soda cans, and green scattered about. 😊🤘#strangeness #art #creativity -
there's a jarring move in the last 1/3 of #VALIS, an extension of its epistemological pushing/prodding, where #PKD drops the Phil/Fat setup via SF/theo-plotstuff--then back it comes as Fat returns.
the book's treatment of this collapse (back into #strangeness) as Just One of Those Things is maybe its most #phildickian quality: 'clinically crazy' is, in PKD's worldview, one more reality to be 'locked into' (318 in the LoA omnibus). structure perfectly, skillfully(!) mirrors content here...
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there's a jarring move in the last 1/3 of #VALIS, an extension of its epistemological pushing/prodding, where #PKD drops the Phil/Fat setup via SF/theo-plotstuff--then back it comes as Fat returns.
the book's treatment of this collapse (back into #strangeness) as Just One of Those Things is maybe its most #phildickian quality: 'clinically crazy' is, in PKD's worldview, one more reality to be 'locked into' (318 in the LoA omnibus). structure perfectly, skillfully(!) mirrors content here...
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there's a jarring move in the last 1/3 of #VALIS, an extension of its epistemological pushing/prodding, where #PKD drops the Phil/Fat setup via SF/theo-plotstuff--then back it comes as Fat returns.
the book's treatment of this collapse (back into #strangeness) as Just One of Those Things is maybe its most #phildickian quality: 'clinically crazy' is, in PKD's worldview, one more reality to be 'locked into' (318 in the LoA omnibus). structure perfectly, skillfully(!) mirrors content here...
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there's a jarring move in the last 1/3 of #VALIS, an extension of its epistemological pushing/prodding, where #PKD drops the Phil/Fat setup via SF/theo-plotstuff--then back it comes as Fat returns.
the book's treatment of this collapse (back into #strangeness) as Just One of Those Things is maybe its most #phildickian quality: 'clinically crazy' is, in PKD's worldview, one more reality to be 'locked into' (318 in the LoA omnibus). structure perfectly, skillfully(!) mirrors content here...
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there's a jarring move in the last 1/3 of #VALIS, an extension of its epistemological pushing/prodding, where #PKD drops the Phil/Fat setup via SF/theo-plotstuff--then back it comes as Fat returns.
the book's treatment of this collapse (back into #strangeness) as Just One of Those Things is maybe its most #phildickian quality: 'clinically crazy' is, in PKD's worldview, one more reality to be 'locked into' (318 in the LoA omnibus). structure perfectly, skillfully(!) mirrors content here...
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It's a brand new #WeekInWeird from our #podcast Supernatural Selection! We cover recent strange news from around the world and discuss #strangeness ! You can find it in your podcatcher of choice or on our site!
https://www.supernaturalselectionpod.com/podcast/week-in-weird-1-6-23 -
It's a brand new #WeekInWeird from our #podcast Supernatural Selection! We cover recent strange news from around the world and discuss #strangeness ! You can find it in your podcatcher of choice or on our site!
https://www.supernaturalselectionpod.com/podcast/week-in-weird-1-6-23
