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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#common #interpret #language #mankind #means

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. ↗


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#language #learned #pain #you

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. ↗


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#later #makes #often #only #remark

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗


— P. G. Wodehouse


#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗


— James Wolcott


#divide #folly #holding #into #just

A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject. ↗


— James Wolcott


#chair #defies #his #king #larry

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗


— James Wolcott


#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. ↗


— James Wolcott


#air #bags #being #big #dedicated

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion. ↗


— James Wolcott


#bin #bleached #clan #diversion #endless

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. ↗


— James Wolcott


#culture #dawns #longer #new #night






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