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Tip-Off #215 - A Charged Field
"Art is the act of making choices in a charged field." - Dean Young, poet.
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Tip-Off #214 - Divine Comedy, Gloomy Prophet
We are not punished for our evasion, but by it.
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Tip-Off #213 - Written in Stone: Broken at Birth
The Ten Commandments
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Time-Out — Chaos 2.0
When in doubt, manufacture chaos and call it momentum.
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Tip-Off #212 - Fear and Hospitality
"Hospitality is culture itself and not simply one ethic amongst others." — Jacques Derrida, "On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness."
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Tip-Off #211 - Sore Truth
Constructive nostalgia.
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Tip-Off #210 - Dancing on Quicksand
"For in much wisdom is much grief, and those that increase knowledge increase sorrow." - Ecclesiastes 1:18.
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Tip-Off #209 - Authorship and the Ancient Debate
"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud." —after Émile Zola (1840-1902), moralist, leading…
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Tip-Off #208 - The Burnout Gospel
Positive thinking is the art of turning away from the truth and calling it courage.
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