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Face transplant

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:44 +0100

"If human beings have a destiny, it is rather to escape the face, to dismantle the face and facialisations, to become imperceptible, to become clandestine, not by returning to animality, nor even by returning to the head, but by spiritual and special becomings-animal, by strange true becomings that get past the wall and get out of the black holes."

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 1988

Egg recall

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:20 +0100

"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination..."

Harold Bloom

Big mouth

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:16 +0100

"The telescope makes the world smaller, the microscope makes the world larger."

G. K. Chesterton

98 times worse than before

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:44 +0100

"In every fever, there is a power applied to the body, which has a tendency to hurt or destroy it... In consequence of the constitution of animal economy, there are certain motions excited, which have a tendency to obviate the effects of the noxious power, or to correct or remove them. Both these kinds of motion are considered as constituting the disease. But the former is perhaps strictly the morbid state, while the latter is to be considered as the operation of the vis medicatrix naturae, or salutary tendency, and which I shall hereafter call the reaction of the system."

William Cullen, First Lines of the Practices of Physick, 1775

Turning it over

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:52 +0100

"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."

Edward de Bono

Think again

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:38 +0100

"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."

Edward de Bono