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MiscellaneousThis category is hereby dedicated to the Island of Misfit Toys. Popular Miscellany Random Stuff "...this strange flavor of the dreamlike and slightly unnatural is characteristic of borderlands. It can be detected in every seam between one specific territory and another...borderlands taste of unruliness and distortion. The grotesque, the unpredictable, and the lawless take root in them and luxuriate." "...monsters and freaks are also ways of speaking about the constraints of the classifying and (often) dichotomizing imagination...monsters (are) united not so much by physical deformity or eccentricity as by their common inability to fit or be fitted into the category of the ordinary..." "Consider for example the proceedings we call games. I mean board games, card games, ball games, Olympic games, and so on. What is common to them all?" "Categorization is not a matter to be taken lightly. There is nothing more basic than categorization to our thought, perception, action, and speech." "There are more students of English in China than there are people in the United States." Ambient findability |
 "One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else." LAWRENCE BLOCK |
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