Joyce was so sick of #shallowness in readers from his previous books and The Bible readers in Dublin that he went all-in on demonstrating how poor Quran, Bible, Torah readers are with meaning of poetry (rock music lyrics, singsong, ballads, including Finnegan's Wake song). #TheGratefulDedalus

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The Coach with the Six Insides (1964)

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A quotation from Jean Kerr

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Personally, I find that it’s work, work, work just trying to keep this top half inch in shape.

Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1960-11), “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, I Don’t Want to Hear One Word Out of You,” Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 77, No. 4

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #attractiveness #beauty #shallowness #skin #superficiality

Kerr, Jean - Essay (1960-11), "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, I Don't Want to Hear One Word Out of You," Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 77, No. 4 | WIST Quotations

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Personally, I find that it’s work, work, work just trying to keep this top half inch in shape. Collected in The Snake Has All The Lines (1960). See Adams…

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1. #Shallowness is the same world wide

2. #Superficial is the same world wide

3. #HandWaving simplistic small thinking patterns of Dismissal and Superficial responses, react commenting, are the same World Wide

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Published year 1988, age 83 :

CAMPBELL: But in the Bible, eternity withdraws, and nature is corrupt, nature has fallen. In biblical thinking, we live in exile.

#BILLMOYERS : As we sit here and talk, there is one story after another of car bombings in Beirut—by the Muslims of the Christians, by the Christians of the Muslims, and by the Christians of the Christians. It strikes me that Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn’t know the global village would be Beirut. What does that say to you?

CAMPBELL: It says to me that they don’t know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It’s a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world. These three mythologies are fighting it out. They have disqualified themselves for the future.

BILL MOYERS: What kind of new myth do we need?

CAMPBELL: We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. A model for that is the United States. Here were thirteen different little colony nations that decided to act in the mutual interest, without disregarding the individual interests of any one of them.

BILL MOYERS: There is something about that on the Great Seal of the United States.

CAMPBELL: That’s what the Great Seal is all about. I carry a copy of the Great Seal in my pocket in the form of a dollar bill.

“Only the shallow know themselves.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
#OscarWilde #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Shallowness

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“Only the shallow know themselves.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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From the archives of the Inquisition: The Resolution Will Not Be Televised

cliche player vs. pig slaughterer

Choose your player!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjwXaBbTA94

#music #jazz #freejazz #popjazz #shallowness #pseudodebates #PeterBrotzmann #KlausDoldinger

Free Jazz vs. Pop Jazz // WDR 1967 - Brötzmann vs. Doldinger

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Outward but Inner Path 7/10
📑 Our culture trains us for “Adam I”: résumés, applause, endless activity. Success without soul. Motion without meaning. Achievements without depth.
#Culture #Shallowness #Success
@DrALJONES
I wish we could stop talking about this terrible #trumpism . The #crooks , the #shallowness, #trumps unbearable #lightness of #being (sorry #Kundera).

@hart Probably for a similar reason as why this aberration was built and floats around.

#sustainability #decadence #ProfitBeforePeople #capitalism #overshoot #deathcult #shallowness

@jamesgbradbury @BenjaminBuse In addition we’re constantly bombarded with ads, images, information, pictures, stories, movies, books, magazines, etc all telling us how uninteresting, plain, boring and horrible our own regions are and how beautiful and fun places far away are. This also in addition to the annual and continuous social competition of having the greatest vacation ever.

#superficialness #shallowness

@drahardja #Marketing people.  A #JobPosition we could probably life without if somebody hasn't started selling #shallowness. But that's how some people are anyways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯