A Momentary Lapse of Reason

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Acepipe

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1. Guloseima, pitéu.

2. Iguaria ou prato servido antes do prato principal. = ANTEPASTO, APERITIVO, ENTRADA

"acepipe", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa [em linha], 2008-2025, https://dicionario.priberam.org/acepipe.

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Show of hands, Maurizio Sapia

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Carla Bley

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From the book: TSUGARU

Project: Tsugaru Dates: 2012 - 2014 Author: Masako Tomiya

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

—Isaac Asimov, Book of Science and Nature Quotations ch lxxii, p 281 (1981)

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It would help if scientist continued to learn phylosophy as well 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Summertime by Jim Hall & Pat Metheny from Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (2011, Nonesuch) album

track #6

Jim Hall, electric guitar

Pat Metheny, electric guitar, acoustic guitars, fretless classical guitar, 42-string guitar

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In a setting where conservatory degrees were still unknown, one's curriculum vitae was earned every night on the bandstand. This combative, macho culture, is rarely discussed, but remains a core value within the jazz community. In the biographies of Parker and Gillespie - and numerous other players - these painful setbacks take on the luster of defining moments, described with a fervor that recalls the backeyed adage about "separating the men from the boys." The accepted jazz cliché about "payin' one's dues" puts a more socially acceptable twist on this whole ritual - making it sound, after all, like some sort of economic transaction - but ignores the undercurrent of aggression that infuses this darker side to the jazz mindset. Who knows what modern jazz would have sounded like without this persistent desire for one-upmanship?

in "The History of Jazz" by Ted Gioia, Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2011

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Just discovered Alice Smith.

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"The sun will soon be on the Pacific coast. To bed, to bed - take off the clothes beginning on the outside and working in. How would it be to take off the underwear first, then the shirt-"

in "The Great American Novel" by William Carlos Williams

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"Jesus, who pace Dawkins did indeed ‘derive his ethics from the Scriptures’ (he was a devout Jew, not the founder of a fancy new set-up), was a joke of a Messiah. He was a carnivalesque parody of a leader who understood, so it would appear, that any regime not founded on solidarity with frailty and failure is bound to collapse under its own hubris. The symbol of that failure was his crucifixion. In this faith, he was true to the source of life he enigmatically called his Father, who in the guise of the Old Testament Yahweh tells the Hebrews that he hates their burnt offerings and that their incense stinks in his nostrils. They will know him for what he is, he reminds them, when they see the hungry being filled with good things and the rich being sent empty away. You are not allowed to make a fetish or graven image of this God, since the only image of him is human flesh and blood. Salvation for Christianity has to do with caring for the sick and welcoming the immigrant, protecting the poor from the violence of the rich. It is not a ‘religious’ affair at all, and demands no special clothing, ritual behaviour or fussiness about diet. (The Catholic prohibition on meat on Fridays is an unscriptural church regulation.)

Jesus hung out with whores and social outcasts, was remarkably casual about sex, disapproved of the family (the suburban Dawkins is a trifle queasy about this), urged us to be laid-back about property and possessions, warned his followers that they too would die violently, and insisted that the truth kills and divides as well as liberates. He also cursed self-righteous prigs and deeply alarmed the ruling class."

Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching [a review on The God Delusion  by Richard Dawkins]

Terry Eagleton

in...London Review of Books Vol. 28 No. 20 · 19 October 2006

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"In some ways the link between wider income gaps and lower social mobility is unsurprising. From violin lessons to tu- tors for tests, richer parents can invest more in their children, im- proving their chances of getting into the best universities. The meritocratic assumption is that public provision of basic ser- vices, particularly education, does enough to counter this advan- tage to give everyone a reasonable start. That was never true in poor countries with rudimentary social services. Increasingly, it does not seem to be true in rich ones either, particularly America. But the link between inequality and declining mobility is not in- evitable"

in "World Economy Special Report - Trade Off, Having your Cake October 13th 2012, The Economist"

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"Our intelect has created a new worl that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines. The latter are so indubitably useful and so much needed that we cannot see even a possibility of getting rid of them or of our odious subservience to them. Man is bound to follow the exploits of his scientific and inventive mind and to admire himself for his splendid achievements. At the same time, he cannot help admitting that his genius shows an uncanny tendency to invent things that become more and more dangerous, because they represent better and better means for wholesale suicide. In view of the rapidly increasing avalanche of world population, we have already begun to seek ways and means of keeping the rising flood at bay. But nature may anticipate all our attempts by turning against man his own creative mind, and, by releasing the H-bomb or some equally catastrophic device, put an effective stop to overpopulation. In spite of our proud domination of nature we are still her victims as much as ever and have not even learnt to control our own nature, which slowly and inevitably courts disaster."

in "The Undiscovered Self" by Carl G. Jung, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2011

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"If, for a moment, we look at mankind as one individual, we see that it is like a man carried away by unconscious powers. He is dissociated like a neurotic, with the Iron Curtain marking the line of division. Western man, representing the kind of consciousness hitherto regarded as valid, has become increasingly aware of the aggressive will to power of the East, and he sees himself forced to take extraordinary measures of defence. What he fails to see is that it is his own vices, publicly repudiated and covered up by good international manners, that are thrown back at his face through their shameless and methodical application by the East. What the West has tolerated, but only secretly, and indulged in a bit shamefacedly (the diplomatic lie, the double-cross, veiled threats), comes back openly and in full measure and gets us tied up in knots - exactly the case of the neurotic! It is the face of our own shadow that glowers at us across the Iron Curtain.

This state of affairs explains the peculiar feeling of helplessness that is creeping over our Western consciousness. We are beginning to realize that the conflict is in reality a moral and mental problem, and we are trying to find some answer to it. We grow increasingly aware that the nuclear deterrent is a desperate and undesirable answer, as it cuts both ways. We know that moral and mental remedies would be more effective because they could provide us with a psychic immunity to the ever increasing infection. But all our attempts have proved to be singularly ineffectual, and will continue to do so as long as we try to convince ourselves and the world that it is only they, our opponents, who are all wrong, morally, morally and philosophically. We expect them to see and understand where they are wrong, instead of making a serious effort ourselves to recognize our own shadow and its nefarious doings. If we could only see our shadow, we should be immune to any moral and mental infection and insinuation. But as long as this is not so, we lay ourselves open to every infection because we are doing practically the same things as they are, only with the additional disadvantage that we neither see nor want to understand what we are doing under the cloak of good manners."

in "The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and The interpretation of Dreams" by Carl Jung, from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volumes 10, 18, Bolinger Series XX, 2011

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