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Descartes
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04-26-2016, 06:21 AM
        Descartes


You wake to your alarm.
Two things are plain:
you’ve slept,
and you woke up again.
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04-26-2016, 07:15 AM
Your Descartes draws out my sceptical Mallarme:
how can you tell that it was your own alarm?
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe
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04-26-2016, 08:27 AM
(04-26-2016, 07:15 AM)Achebe Wrote:  Your Descartes draws out my sceptical Mallarme:
how can you tell that it was your own alarm?

Because "an alarm" reads so wretched - it must be "yours."   I flow, therefore I am. Big Grin
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05-21-2016, 01:52 PM
The real question is is it not "Ma-llar-may"?
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05-21-2016, 02:02 PM
(05-21-2016, 01:52 PM)RiverNotch Wrote:  The real question is is it not "Ma-llar-may"?

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08-19-2016, 07:14 PM
(04-26-2016, 07:15 AM)Achebe Wrote:  Your Descartes draws out my sceptical Mallarme:
how can you tell that it was your own alarm?

If the alarm isn't yours, how can you be sure you've woken at all?
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