Glassjaw
Talk about pissed off lyrics. I wish you a broken heart and a Happy New Year.
They As Genderless Singular Pronoun
The use of they to replace he as the impersonal singular Pronoun in English fascinates me as it seems to me the only radical grammatical change to have taken place in my lifetime. The rules are clearly quite complex as I just realized that it is correct spoken English to say, “everyone believes they are [...]
Writing
Writing has that remarkable ability to remind us of the soul of another we have since lost contact with. In some sense, we can still feel the intimacy we once had with someone simply reading what they have written and this is wonderful given how many life robs us of.
Free Will
Again and again I come upon this misconception, this dreadfully simple confusion that recurs because of our basic cowardice towards reality: free will is an absurdity — and a sort of sin, stemming as it does from the worst sort of courtrooms, the ancient religions with their notions of the condemnation of man by an [...]
A Question Of Conscience
When you say you walk apart from the herd, do you do this as one who walks ahead? or as one who cannot keep up? or as one who simply wonders off in nonsensical directions? Only one of these is admirable and is easily confused with the other two. If you think you lead, that [...]
The Sharp Hint Of New Tears
On the way home this car hears my confessions. I think tonight I’ll take the long way in this weather. The wind outside is biting. It has left me feeling tired and exposed. You’ve been asking me to bleed. It seems these kinds of questions — they come too easy to you now. Your lack [...]