Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'Americana'
If America Were on Arrakkis
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Richard Rorty, 4 October 1931 — 8 June 2007
[. . .] it is not much use pointing out the “internal contradictions” of a social practice, or “deconstructing” it, unless one can come up with an alternative practice—unless one can at least sketch a utopia in which the concept...
Robert Frost’s “War Thoughts at Home”
Robert Stilling, a University of Virginia English Ph.D. candidate, has discovered a formerly unpublished poem by Robert Frost entitled ”War Thoughts at Home.” Stilling has written up the story of his find and the background of the poem in an...
Geographical Soma and Postfixing SPAM
Yesterday, I returned from my friend Jason's and his (then) bride-to-be Sarah's wedding in Indianapolis. The parts of Indianapolis I visited were incredibly clean and smoking is not allowed in public spaces, bars being an exception. The most interesting...
Object
The Smiley Face, perhaps one of the best known secular icons in the contemporary world, was originally created by Harvey R. Ball in 1963. He designed the Smiley Face to inspirit workers of two recently merged insurance companies. State...
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