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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Young Tormented Genius Movies

by Frank Paynter on August 15, 2006

Did you like “Good Will Hunting?” Then you may like “Proof” with Gwynneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, and Jake Gyllenhaal.

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Constipated, humorless, self-absorbed

by Frank Paynter on August 15, 2006

Here’s Derrida putting the eff in effing ineffability. The guy is so superficial that his surface shines, his experience so limited that he isn’t able to apply practice to theory. He’s embarrassingly shallow. But y’know, for all that, I forgive him.

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Ten Ideas on Numbered Lists

August 15, 2006

It’s good to structure your list around some achievable set of ideas. Most of us have ten fingers, ten toes. Why not ten ideas? (As for twenty, see number two, below).
Readers will make time for a list of ten ideas, but unless there is something compelling them, like a grade, or desperation, [...]

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