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🗓️ 8 December 2023
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Mark, Wes, and Seth read through more of Kierkegaard's Diapsalmata, translated as "Refrains," which are the aphorisms that begin the book and demonstrate the aesthetic point of view.
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0:15.0 | This is the Partially Examine Life episode 330, Part 3, still discussing either or, reading some of the diapsalmata he refrains but it's not a |
0:27.6 | close read we're not reading all of them it's just it's just our favorites we've got the whole |
0:32.1 | whole crew such as it was I shouldn't say the whole crew not the whole crew |
0:36.8 | Hey Seth is here. It's my point. You're right. All right. Who wants to start with one? I wanted to go back to one that we missed. |
0:45.8 | Tested advice for authors. Page 19, PDF page 40. One carelessly writes down one's personal observations, has them printed, and in various proofs |
0:57.0 | one will eventually acquire a number of good ideas. Therefore, take courage, you who have not dared to have something printed, do not despise typographical errors, and to become witty by means of typographical errors, may be considered a legitimate way to become witty. |
1:14.0 | That one sounds quite Nietzsche, the address to the reader, you who have not yet |
1:19.7 | dared. |
1:21.0 | So why would one become witty by way of a typographical error? |
1:24.0 | And one way to think about this is just that you know you can thinking here |
1:28.0 | Freud and slips of the tongue and things like that. |
1:31.0 | One can betray one's unconscious or instinctual life that way. |
1:35.1 | Perhaps that's also why I thought it sounded quite niche and and wit of course is |
1:38.8 | founded on that. It's founded on the same sort of principle of slippage double entendres things like that so is it a |
1:46.9 | legitimate way to become witty if you do it unintentionally let's say suppose |
1:51.5 | if that's the meaning. |
1:53.2 | If the slip is unintentional, if it unintentionally |
1:56.5 | reveals your underlying intentioned, |
1:59.2 | it sounds like it's praising a more instinctual, passionate, less careful approach to being a philosopher, let's |
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