Dušan Pavlović

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Zvuk oluje, snimljeno tokom olujnog predvečerja 8. 6. 2020. u Beogradu.

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... one thing has to be said straight off: The Godelian strange loop that arises in formal systems in mathematics (i. e., collections of rules for churning out an endless series of mathematical trurhs solely by mechanical symbol-shunting without any regard to meanings or ideas hidden in the shapes being manipulated) is a loop that allows such a system to "percieve itself", to talk about itself, to became "self-aware", and in a sense it would not be going too far to say that by virtue of having such a loop, a formal system acquires a self.

Douglas R. Hofstadter, GEB: An Eternal Golden Braid (Twentieth-anniversary Preface, 1999)

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"He turned to the flyleaf of the geography and read what he had written there: himself, his name and where he was.

Stephen Dedalus Class of Elements Clongowes Wood College Sallins County Kildare Ireland Europe The World The Universe"

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

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They sprout out of the cement, growing where they shouldn't. Rising up patiently with exemplary will and dignity. Without lineage, wild, unclassifiable by botanists. A strange, rampant, absurd beauty. They adorn the greyest of corners, don't own anything and nothing can stop them. A metaphor for uncontrollable life that paradoxically forces me to face my weakness.

(Medianeras, 2011)

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Dr. House: I saw something amazing: pure truth. She told her mother that she was dying. Stripped her of all hope.

Dr. Wilson: [haltingly] That sounds... horrible.

Dr. House: It was like watching some... bizarre astronomical event you know you're never gonna see again.

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Pulchra enim sunt ubera quae paululum supereminent et tument modice, nec fluitantia licenter, sed leniter restricta, repressa sed non depressa...

Umberto Eko, Ime ruže

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Eve: Time changes everything.

Dr. House: That’s what people say, it’s not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.

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August Natterer -- Meine Augen zur Zeit der Erccheinungen (1911-1913)

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Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Video on TED.com

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

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Afion - Anadolka / Ruse kose curo imaš

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Caspar David Friedrich - Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (1818)

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nodus tollens

n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed through to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett