tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post1251494795612142056..comments2014-07-13T11:25:55.141-07:00Comments on Deconstructing Zaniness: The great gig (in the sky)Pavanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12191539364416007901noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-56830575519161163652007-11-21T04:22:00.000-08:002007-11-21T04:22:00.000-08:00HIM not H.I.M. AND they're not underrated, little ...HIM not H.I.M. AND they're not underrated, little left out because of the PMMPs and all but still. <BR/><BR/>More to the point, I found close to a billion bracket errors but maybe it's essential to zany nirvana (?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-31632680983397320922006-11-28T17:39:00.000-08:002006-11-28T17:39:00.000-08:00Touche Bro...I concur...The Experience Machine Typ...Touche Bro...I concur...The Experience Machine Types....or Jimi Hendrix- The Experience :D....Good for a quasi-definition, so to speakMayurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699292532682974764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-78233020420065080232006-11-26T08:57:00.000-08:002006-11-26T08:57:00.000-08:00Put something abt finland for god's sake. You keep...Put something abt finland for god's sake. You keep leading to something descriptove and jerk away at the last minuteAkasuna no Sasorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13459634662554509126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-13490139897792618712006-11-22T13:33:00.000-08:002006-11-22T13:33:00.000-08:00Ikozma, 2 more things!
1. It just struck me that ...Ikozma, 2 more things!<br /><br />1. It just struck me that I can coin two neologisms for the two types of irrationalities I have suggested - sub-rational and super-rational. Kind of like sub and super Gaussian (which is thought to be an ultimate distribution that can achieve a lot of cool things)in statistics!<br /><br />2. I wonder why the idea of eternal recurrence is attributed to Nietzsche. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YugasPavanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191539364416007901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-25275909768146155182006-11-22T13:28:00.000-08:002006-11-22T13:28:00.000-08:00Ikozma...
Again, spot on! By being rational, one ...Ikozma...<br /><br />Again, spot on! By being rational, one is bound by a set of rules of logic, so to speak, and this weighs one down with responsibility. By contrast, zaniness emancipates you from this structure of thought, thus in a way equating to Kundera's lightness (courtesy of the wiki page).<br /><br />Btw, I started reading this book once last year, but it was at a point when I had just read a book each of Sartre, Camus, Kafka and Hesse! So, I decided to space out my 'weighty' readings about 'lightness' and returned it :)Pavanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191539364416007901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-20019645609913156692006-11-22T13:21:00.000-08:002006-11-22T13:21:00.000-08:00Ikozma...
I think you are very close to understan...Ikozma...<br /><br />I think you are very close to understanding what I wished to express. To put it simply, zaniness is any sort of deviance from mechanistic logical reasoning that can expose it's limitations, thus rising above it. (This is one type of deviance. The other type of deviance would be childishness, one which fails to exploit the advantages of rationality!) Ramanujan certainly fits the bill, though I suspect there is more than requisite mysticism attributed to him by virtue of his Indianness :)Pavanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191539364416007901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-58624866336279551292006-11-22T12:34:00.000-08:002006-11-22T12:34:00.000-08:00"This purity of living by instinct sooner or later..."This purity of living by instinct sooner or later distills into a sweet irrationality, a stream-of-consciousness that knows not and judges not."<br /><br />Is Zaniness = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightness"> Lightness </a> ?<br /><br />I'd like to use this opportunity to recommend Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, as one of the most philosophical and entertaining (erotic) books ever :) it also explains Kitsch...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-29538318715953353252006-11-20T03:09:00.000-08:002006-11-20T03:09:00.000-08:00If zaniness refers also to understanding the worki...If zaniness refers also to understanding the workings of the whole without bothering to deconstruct it into pieces, a flash of clairvoyance, in which all things reveal their hidden side, one part rational thinking, two parts mysticism, then the ultimate zany is <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan'> Ramanujan</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-40789219233309449552006-11-19T10:57:00.000-08:002006-11-19T10:57:00.000-08:00keewl man.. n i concur..
make it more digestible.....keewl man.. n i concur..<br />make it more digestible.. <br />n do put in some masala as well.. de indian scandinavian hottie etc..lolzdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05723442696262410488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7596096639063476771.post-89085193796604764562006-11-18T11:30:00.000-08:002006-11-18T11:30:00.000-08:00Hehehe, nice retort Amit! Thanks! I will fix the t...Hehehe, nice retort Amit! Thanks! I will fix the typo. I will not be derogatory at all. After all, piggies can go through bone like butter...<br /><br />Yossarian was a fictional character from Catch-22 who captured my imagination as one of the maddest guys I have read about.<br /><br />Nice observation that 'noooo' falls in between verbal and non verbal communication. Zensa is also a very zany suggestion - but the type of intelligence I associate with Mensa is too proverbial and worldly to qualify as zany or madcap!<br /><br />As for the test, maybe I will make another post about 'How not to read this blog'!Pavanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12191539364416007901noreply@blogger.com