Everything You Know is Wrong

Sideblog of resilient-humdrum. Started out as a pretentious literature kinda blog but it's mostly politics, linguistics, and some other writing-related stuff. Still very pretentious though. Favorite author is James Joyce. Anarcho-Communism.

[awakened-returner]

my contribution to the Linguistics discourse that doesn’t exist

[awakened-returner]

intro to linguistics prof: …And so in actually pronouncing ‘strength’ /stɹeŋθ/ we insert this accidental [k] between nasal and fricative sounds resulting a pronunciation of [stɹeŋkθ].

me: But… if this k sound is a result of movement of the tongue near the velum between the enigma and theta, instead of accidental shouldn’t it be called… accivelar? :D

I immediately die and go straight to hell where I belong.

[finding-sukhavati]

when did this get 140 notes???

[finding-sukhavati]

Just noticed that it autocorrected engma and for the record I never actual said this, I only thought it, I’m a fraud

[finding-sukhavati]

Really feeling the Itch to re-read Der Zauberberg in celebration of half a decade since Best Year AP Euro

[awakened-returner]

La Folia: first musical meme???

[humansofnewyork]

“When you’re a kid, Jesus sounds like a hippie or Bernie Sanders or something so it all sounds pretty nice. But then the rules get confusing. You go to Catholic school and some guy in a dress named Brother Roy starts beating you cause you got in a fight. It’s sorta like Gitmo in there. And you start to realize that all these rules are just to keep people down. To keep women down especially because they have the ultimate power of not fucking you. I do like the Jews because their version is less full of shit. A lot of those Talmud guys are so smart that they’re practically just atheists who love fairy tales. And Buddhism is pretty cool too cause it’s all in your head. No Pope. No mandatory meetings. Anyway, let me know if you figure it out. I don’t know shit I just dress well.”

[awakened-returner]

intro to linguistics prof: …And so in actually pronouncing ‘strength’ /stɹeŋθ/ we insert this accidental [k] between nasal and fricative sounds resulting a pronunciation of [stɹeŋkθ].

me: But… if this k sound is a result of movement of the tongue near the velum between the enigma and theta, instead of accidental shouldn’t it be called… accivelar? :D

I immediately die and go straight to hell where I belong.

[finding-sukhavati]

when did this get 140 notes???

[finding-sukhavati]

I swear I’m gonna find a way to use this blog more often

[awakened-returner]

Was totally on board with most of Huelsenbeck’s manifesto for Dadaist communism till it started prattling about the “communist state” and its related “compulsions.”  Do you not know what communism means?  “communist state” is an oxymoron, sweaty :)

[awakened-returner]

Holy shit regulation of all laws (not to mention sexual relations) according to the views of a central council what the fuck?

[finding-sukhavati]

I know it’s been months but I eventually realized wait why am I taking anything a Dadaist work proposes at face value?

[awakened-returner]

The Lotus Sutra is just a Buddhist crackfic

[awakened-returner]

Was totally on board with most of Huelsenbeck’s manifesto for Dadaist communism till it started prattling about the “communist state” and its related “compulsions.”  Do you not know what communism means?  “communist state” is an oxymoron, sweaty :)

[awakened-returner]

Holy shit regulation of all laws (not to mention sexual relations) according to the views of a central council what the fuck?

[awakened-returner]

Was totally on board with most of Huelsenbeck’s manifesto for Dadaist communism till it started prattling about the “communist state” and its related “compulsions.”  Do you not know what communism means?  “communist state” is an oxymoron, sweaty :)

[awakened-returner]

The Difference is Spreading

Beginning my foray into the madness of Gertrude Stein.  Wish me luck!

[wordswilling]

It was Kafka who taught me that at any moment banality might turn sinister, for existence was not meant to be unfailingly genial.

Thomas Berger from an interview with Richard Schickel (as quoted in The Paris Review)

[finding-sukhavati]

Sorry I’m still inactive here

Again you can find pretty much everything that I’d post here on my personal at @mash-kyrielight but there’s also a bunch of anime stuff and memes there too so honestly nobody wins when it comes to dealing with me.

Another URL of mine btw is @resilient-humdrum if you recognize that one but I’ve mostly abandoned that as I’ve gotten too fond of the Mash URL even though I’m not a Fate-centric blog

[awakened-returner]

My assessment of Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Hur dur look at all the languages I know and all these people I reference who will be irrelevant in less than a decade I’m only relevant cause I helped publish Ulysses did I mention I was a fascist?

[awakened-returner]

Sorry E.P. I’m sure you have good stuff but I’d much rather be reading Stein or Joyce right now instead of you.

[awakened-returner]

Futurism is one hell of a drug

[awakened-returner]

The inspiration for every piece of music ever played can be traced back to the ur-song, All-Star by Smash Mouth (1999)