the abyss means...

The Modern period was not misnamed. True, the ordinary word "modern" is associated with "new" and "now", but the historical period we call Modern chose to associate itself with the "new" and the "now" in such a deep way that we actually see the breakdown of the whole notion of periods. The Modern period is the period that refuses to die. The world is now an odd mix of the Modern and the postmodern. Oddly, it's not just because the Modern refuses to die, but also because the postmodern refuses to kill the Modern. But then, the postmodern refuses to kill anything completely.
Perl, the first postmodern computer language

Yes. This is my late-night reading material. Don't laugh.

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my bedtime reading is a cross between music theory and the tao of pooh.

i wanna find out how tiggers reach nirvana through the power of rawk!

eddie on September 9, 2003 09:29 AM

One word: "deconstructionism". This guy makes Brian Eno look like Heidegger.

des on September 9, 2003 11:39 AM

I did say it was light... Good humour value.

joh on September 9, 2003 11:57 AM