cimorene

"philosophers who favor propositions have said that propisitions are needed because truth is intelligible only of propositions, not of sentences. an unsympathetic answer is that we can explain the truth of sentences to the propositionalist in his own terms: sentences are true whose meanings are true propositions. any failure of intelligibility here is already his own fault." --willard van orman quine, philosophy of logic, quoted in triton by the much-worshipped samuel r delany

the pathetic squealing is about delany. dude, i <3 this guy more than imaginable. he is so cool. his novels reduce me to quivering admiration. and he's so much better that i don't feel any envy, even. dammit, he wrote like this in college, so it's not like i might grow into it. he is def. smarter than me. one of the most brilliant geniuses to ever hit the world of sf. triton and the einstein intersection and babel-17. also dhalgren, which i have not yet read. many more books. i don't have time to read for pleasure. *whine*

<--can't not love a jovial gay black man who resembles a black santa claus dressed in black leather. i just want to see him sing "jingle bell rock" and my life will be complete. actually, just seeing him at all would be pretty fucking awesome.

<--maybe i will? *has a thought* going to look for con listings on internet! irrationally excited all of a sudden! squee!

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