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do you like aphorisms? they are quite unfashionable, I think, at least in anglophone culture, perhaps for their possible (; probable) hubris. 'who the hell are you to say this?'

however there is perhaps a climate, now, for the ascendancy of the aphorism, even if only in a small way. vectors or speed borne of a kind of ppmodern (collective?) ennui directed at and from the slippage and perspectivism of much pmodern thought. 'stir it up.' this might be poppycock. (who says 'poppycock'?)

who are your favourite aphorists? do you like aphorisms? do you know any by heart? what is an 'aphorism'?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ennui, distaste, frustration, and annoyance.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

post aphorisms.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread smells familiar.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I say "poppycock".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Which is preferred? The aphorism which is clever or the aphorism which is true?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

www.aphorismsgalore.com

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

When did fortune cookies stop telling fortunes and start telling aphorisms?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

One aphorist said to the other, "Women be different from men."

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I have seen the best aphorisms of my generation destoryed by honesty.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

don't let poppycock stop you.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: http://infonectar.com/Aphorisms/Aphorisms.CFM vs. http://www.therightside.demon.co.uk/quotes/wilde/

(The second link doesn't guarantee an aphorism. It is thus like life.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no reason on earth to resist a word that contains the syllable "cock". Alive-o.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Aphorisms and haiku: Must they remain unconflated?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"30+ new answers" does not always guarantee that a thread is popular.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

We hold these truths to be self-evident.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Any news on Don Paterson's (forthcoming?) aphorism book? I think it was going to be called Book of Shadows?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 June 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You can find a couple of pages of DP's aphorisms here: http://www.donpaterson.com/journalism.html

I often find myself reminded of this one while reading ILE

There are men and women who, upon every occasion one
meets them, talk so seamlessly of themselves one wonders
how they managed to listen long enough to have acquired the
power of speech in the first place.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha!

I like this too: 'No matter how intolerable an event was, it only has to be repeated three times for you to invest it with a feeling of
nostalgia.'

DP said at a reading I was at that he always worried that the aphorisms might actually be just him... and hence not aphorisms really at all. The ones we laughed or nodded at, he was going to keep...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 28 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ha!

x-post

ha!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

umm, hate to sound dumb, but aphorism? huh??

― Rowie (Rowie), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Aphorism: 'a concise statement of a principle' or 'a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment'.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

it's here.

style is the refinement of lazy's desire component.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If it wasn't already dead, I think the aphorism officially died when Baudrillard wrote the following:

"In terms of collective drama, we can say that the horror for the [3,000] victims of dying in those towers was inseparable from the horror of living in them—the horror of living and working in sarcophagi of concrete and steel."

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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