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	<description>A blog containing heretical subjects that challenges orthodox philosophy. In fact, philosophy is renewed by heretical thoughts, which are themselves explosions of creativity. Orthodox philosophy does nothing but mummify the status quo. A heterodox philosopher always offers dangerous critiques of the established orthodoxy.</description>
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		<title>Philosophy of the Gods, part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(For part one, go here). The Elder Gods
Their immortal hearts have been seared and hardened by an insurmountable evil that makes them immune to all fantasies &#038; hallucinations of gods who still believe in ideals. Elder gods reject Cartaphilus, that dangerous prophet, and the most audacious thinker of delirious times.
The elder gods are typically radical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualities Exercise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Browsing the Galilean Library this morning, I came across a thread about a creative writing technique called &#8220;Qualities Exercise.&#8221; You try to describe the characteristics of a quality or an abstract concept as if it was a person. There&#8217;s an art to this exercise of anthropomorphism, as I found out:
Boredom is a stubborn and dedicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New sketch of Oracle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to decide on Oracle&#8217;s outfit for the 2nd chapter, and here&#8217;s a rough b&#038;w sketch:
Later, I&#8217;ll upload a colorized version.

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		<title>Open Letter to Steve Ballmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Mr. Ballmer,
This is an open letter, obviously, addressed to you in the hopes of helping guide some aspect of Microsoft that I believe will allow it to regain the luster that it recently lost in the past few years. I do want to acknowledge that under your reign, Microsoft has turned in an insane [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hyperboreans.com/heterodoxia/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Truth? Pshaw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While vacationing in Italy, I had the opportunity to flex a couple of neurons. My family is full of devout Catholics, and my youngest aunt Costanza (Costu) has the &#8220;gift&#8221; of speaking in tongues. That means the hardcore Catholics pray with her, and sometimes that sets her off in a indecipherable tongue-speaking frenzy. My uncle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Rortys Philosophy &#038; Mirror of Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still here in Italy on vacation, but I&#8217;ve kept on reading PaMoN, and currently I am on Part II (Theory of Knowledge).
Before we get into the nitty gritty, i have something to admit. For years ive always admired Rorty, and ive read his later works (Consequences of Pragmatism, several essays from Philosophical Papers, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hyperboreans.com/heterodoxia/?p=151</link>
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		<title>Recent sketches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unnamed Hindu Goddess (possibly Maya):

Kaeli, inspired by Frank Cho&#8217;s Shanna:


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		<link>http://www.hyperboreans.com/heterodoxia/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Cover preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a partial scan of the cover A of Pantheon (scanner bed is smaller than the 11 x 17 paper). About 90% done. 

And here&#8217;s the pencil replacement for the 8th page, which had skewered architecture in the back, and I wanted to show a larger view of the protagonist. Much better than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hyperboreans.com/heterodoxia/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Fingersmiths &#8220;R&#8221; Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cast:
Bob - a short story author, published a novel
Erik - a screenplay writer
chez moi - a graphic novelist
Setting:
Fred 62 Diner in LA
Yesterday, at 2pm, I arrived at the diner mere moment before Erik did, despite the best efforts of the traffic gods and an unreliable GPS. We agreed to sit outside, and after we obtained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hyperboreans.com/heterodoxia/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Deafness &#038; authentic writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was reading an article on theNation.com about a new generation of writers from Mexico (Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla &#038; Eloy Urroz) in the mid nineties, and it hit very close to home. They called themselves the &#8220;crackeros&#8221; but what interested me the most was their resistance to writing &#8220;Mexican literature.&#8221;  Literary critics [...]]]></description>
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