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Now Available: "Paradigm Shift: Paradigm Slippage: Paradigm Boogie-Woogie" (Retcon, movement 2, installment 2)
An Announcement with Miscellaneous Notes, Excuses and Diversions, including a Brief Introduction to the Star Gauge of Sū Huì
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Contra Kriss on the Value of Truth
A follow-up to my essay about fiction and lies, considering the question of whether or not Sam Kriss is a liar
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The Difference Between Fiction and Lies Is Actually Very Straightforward
Give or take a few edge cases, sure, but the basics are pretty simple
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A Magical Pairing
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author of Pierre Menard's Don Quixote
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Saying Kaddish as an Atheist
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You Should Listen to the Delight That is Revolutions Season 11
But Only After Drinking Deep of the Delights of Revolutions Seasons 3 - 10
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The World Will Never Be Saved
Meditations Inspired By, But Not Really About, the Events of This Week, With More than the Usual Number of Quotations as Hopefully Instructive…
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Saying Kaddish as an Atheist
Magnified and Sanctified be God's Name, Even Though I Don't Believe in Him
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Retcon Movement Two has begun!
The first story, "Quartet for the End of the Beginning of the End of Time", is now available, and a Number of Related Announcements, Observations, and…
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On the God's Eye View of Art, Part 2
With Some Largely Parenthetical Remarks on the Nature and Pleasures of Certain Imaginary Libraries
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On the God's Eye View of Art, Part 1
Or, Variations Without Themes
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The Voters Did Not Chose Biden as the Nominee
Trying to Put to Rest a Genuinely Fatuous Talking Point
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