proud flesh

Healed before the scars remembered where to leave their marks.

almost malapropism

Almost a malapropism except it makes sense: Devise and conquer.

low down

A sewer worker in the necropolis.

friend demand

Make too many friends and you forfeit your own life.

after the fall

Felled, but feeling better.

utilitarian time

Last time I looked the fifty dollar Timex told the same time as the fifty-thousand Rolex.

from haunt to hunt

I was haunted enough by to begin hunting for.

spot visible from space

In May 2010, scientists noticed that Jupiter had mysteriously lost one of its great cloud belts. At the same time, if on one of Jupiter’s moons an observer would've turned his telescope toward planet Earth, he would have noticed a ‘great dark spot’ developing on the surface of one of our seas.

known by your army

It’s been said that a language is a dialect with an army. If so, then perhaps a religion is a cult with an army.

can't countenance

Janus became jealous of his other face.

right to gripe

Only voters have the right to complain about their government.

round and round

We can only watch as the teleology chases its tail.

gangland

Pure capitalism is organized crime. A corporation is nothing more than a governmentally licensed gang.

stuck thought

A teacher stuck in the things he was taught.

video: inverse reality

As the characters in video games get more fit, sculpted and athletic, the game players become more sedentary, amorphous and obese.

more and less

I know more than I think I do—and so much less than I should.

ad in

In the 21st C, who would have imagined that the computer industry’s biggest player (Google) would be a major advertising concern with a technology arm.

gritty reality

The digital sand castle began to pixilate, to disintegrate and crumble.

polar forces

Civilization arises from two inimical and polar forces: market and art.

bidirectional bootstrap

Letting down a bootstrap to pull up one less fortunate.

renewed ruins

At the tourist destination the renovations to the ruins were going well.

tyrant defined

Tyrant: A leader whose head can’t be turned other than by a noose.

win the days

To have won the days between then and now is enough.

social wisdom

No matter the extent or depth of one’s knowledge, wisdom cannot be attained in a state of aloneness. Wisdom is a social phenomenon. It requires that one’s knowledge be deployed interpersonally or socially toward some good. That good may be artistic, scientific, altruistic, practical, etc., but wisdom is always instrumental and not isolate.

first failed translation

The translation problem between languages pales before the struggle to translate the material world into any language.

mapped or lived

Determinism is a mapping of history. While free will exists only in the present.

immortal flaw

Immortality would be a bore. The best life ends in due course.

law's call

The first order of the law is to create clarity in human relations. Perhaps it's not a paradox that the legal code has grown so complex.

so over

Lots of things are ‘so over’ before I knew they’d started.

desire piqued

When your desire is piqued, ask what you’re being sold.

light-footed

To tread lightly upon the land.

function compunction

Function is style.

speed of sound

Stop and recall ‘343 meters per second’ (the speed of sound) before you speak.

close call with extinction

When observing politics in action it's worthwhile to consider that only by coordination of efforts and mutual cooperation did early humans make it out of the Pliocene era.

final things

Religion’s greatest lie is to deny the finite.

telling light

Putting a light on darker aspects of history is enough. To expose is to judge.

human measure

Time is human measure of change, be it creation or decay.

people problem

Another utopia spoiled by people.

sequentially challenged

I was discussing history with a prophet.

life exiled

Not dead, but exiled from life.