And I mean that—everything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a narrative out of a collection of random experiences and events. Your conversations are fiction. Your friends and loved ones—they are characters you have created. And your arguments with them are like meetings with an editor—please, they beseech you, you beseech them, rewrite me. You have a perception of the way things are, and you impose it on your memory, and in this way you think, in the same way that I think, that you are living something that is describable. When of course, what we actually live, what we actually experience—with our senses and our nerves—is a vast, absurd, beautiful, ridiculous chaos.

Source

Logician: Here is an example of a syllogism. The cat has four paws. Isidore and Fricot both have four paws. Therefore Isidore and Fricot are cats.

Old Gentleman: My dog has got four paws.

Logician: Then it is a cat.

Job Listing

Part-Time Maintenance Cleaner/ Historian- Grant Writer at Non-Profit

Description:

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a strong interest in janitorial work and the non-profit sphere. Must be able to write clean, snappy copy.

Candidates must have 3-5 years experience in cleaning and/or maintenance, the ability to lift and carry objects up to 50 pounds, master's degree or PhD, and good communication skills. 

Responsibilities include:

Removing snow 

Editing, proofreading, compiling, and writing grant proposal packages

Operating specialized cleaning machines

Comparing programmatic elements of proposals to budget

Moving furniture and equipment

Cleaning public areas

Compiling history

Languages needed

English (Required)

Mandarin Chinese (Suggested)

How to Apply:

Send resume and cover letter. In the letter, list your qualifications and reason for seeking the position. Be brief!

YES

Q: Do you think that you have already achieved the American Dream of being your own boss?

A: Yes, I do...umm, but I don't know what the American Dream is. I never heard of it before. Are you going to buy a Fun Pass from me now?

[Story]

"Some men, after they have crawled through a thousand indignities to the supreme dignity, have been assailed by the gloomy thought that all their labours were but for the sake of an epitaph."

I just wanna boogie

This epistemological impasse precisely marks the postcolonial knowledge condition. It is an amnesia, but one that does not exactly mean forgetting; rather, it signifies the collective condition of a group that does not know what has been forgotten.

In the midst of the discussion, a peasant....said: "Now I see that without man there is no world."

...The educator responded: "Let's say, for the sake of argument, that all the men on earth were to die, but that the earth itself remained, together with trees, birds, animals, rivers, seas, the stars ... wouldn't all this be a world?"

"Oh no," the peasant replied emphatically. "There would be no one to say: 'This is a world.'"

"Nothing is more embarrassing... than the irritable patriotism of the Americans" - Alexis de Tocqueville

"As we get older, life seems to fly by faster and faster. That's because we structure our experience of time around memories. We remember events in relation to other events. But as we get older, and our experiences become less unique, our memories can blend together. If yesterday's lunch is indistinguishable from the one you ate the day before, it'll end up being forgotten. That's why it's so hard to remember meals. In the same way, if you're not doing things that are unique and different and memorable, this year can come to resemble the last, and end up being just as forgettable as yesterday's lunch. That's why it's so important to pack your life with interesting experiences that make your life memorable, and provide a texture to the passage of time." -JF