"thesis yesterday, antithesis today, and synthesis tomorrow" ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
and probably Hegel
and Marx
we are all our own autodidacts in some form
it's painful, but the absence of pain is death. and i am saying, then, that happiness is pain.
it came from somewhere.
yet a blog entry is sediment--a settlement of fine-grained thoughts, transported by aeolion turbulence of premise. A blog shows the end product, the rock; a spoken sentence creates the same illusion of certainty.
there is no certainty, no end product of the human mind.
and this is a https://www. yesterday.
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a person, Russian author, and political dissident. Living around the turn of the twentieth century, he sympathized with the Bolshevik cause, participating in early party activities. But as the Bolsheviks seized greater influence, Zamyatin began expressing disillusionment with their causes and policies.
Between 1920 and 1921, he authored a favorite of mine, We. It is one of the only science fiction books I have ever read, and I never thought the genre would appeal to me. Goes to show what we miss out on when we use preconceptions to bar ourselves from action.
In We, dystopia is of great import to plot--but this is no 1984. In fact, George Orwell acknowledged having read Zamyatin's work prior to concocting the oft-cited Big Brother.
For more on Zamyatin's dialectical insights, check it: http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/zamyatin.html
And I like this photo (?) of him:
Regards to the gracious Wikipedia
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It is April. The summer BBQ intersection is 100 feet in view.
Time to turn on your turn signal.
BURGER MARINADE!!!!!!
(marry-nate. your patties' names will all be nate. the marinade is the act of marrying the patties and flavor. love.)
marinade can so often be an afterthought:
oh yeah, maybe the burgers could have been a bit juicier.
this recipe can apply to any kind of burger, using meat, beans, or somethin' else as the base.
but the patties are a collective nate; time for the mari-.
ingredients
~any vegetables (i recommend red bell peppers, chopped)
~any bulbs (yes i think onions and garlic are classified as bulbs. use as much as you want, trust yourself. i don't guarantee good breath)
~any spices (onion powder, paprika, basil leaves, curry; honestly anything you have in your cabinet, not knowing what you're doing is fun)
~Worcestershire sauce (barely malt vinegar with molasses, onion, garlic, spices; rich and acidic~~about a tablespoon or two)
fun fact: 1 US Tbsp is approximately 3 US tsp.
~sriracha, sauce made from chili paste, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. it is hot and spicy. add it you like your stuff that way.
cool fact: sriracha may be named after the Thai city of Sri Racha, located in its southern coast on the Indochinese Peninsula. I am referring to the mainland Thai territory that does not project between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, forming somewhat of a vertical isthmus with Malaysia.
BACK TO THE WEDDING!!!
~get out ingredients. (i often forget to do this before I start)
~chop the vegetables, onions, and garlic.
~unleash your nate patty base (again, it can be meat, beans, anything~~) into a large bowl.
~throw your chopped veggies and bulbs in the bowl with nate (this is the first wedding pronouncement)
~splash in the Worcestershire, again a Tbsp or two. (This is the wedding anthem--here comes the bride. vinegar sauce is the patty bride.)
~sriracha, if you so desire (this is the unveiling of the bride)
~spices!!!!
~mix all these things together with your hands. (holy matrimony)
~seal with plastic wrap.
~refrigerate for a few hours.
then do whatever. (honeymoon??)
A vague step-by-step:
(I used Pat LaFrieda Hamburger meat)
see ya
