Raids on the Unspeakable

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> Truth is verified only by creation or invention.
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The inventor shop
> It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being…
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Creativity and the problem of the improbable
> The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any…
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Attention as a thing which leaps
> … chickens, twenty, a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones, a hundred or two hundred eggs, if they are for sale there at a fair price … 8…
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The hand in human history
> For according to that which is present to them doth thought increase in men.
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Compression and prediction as finite and infinite games
> Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.
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The golem
Aptly my earliest experience of a story coming to life, exerting its own will.
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Let me make you beautiful, granny!
This inspired by odd thoughts upon reading a line in Dream of the Red Chamber.
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Raids on the Unspeakable
Raids on the Unspeakable
Play is the exultation of the possible.

Raids on the Unspeakable

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