A Selected Dyslexicon
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lapsedmodernistHere are some words/concepts often employed by Children of Mark
1) The Vortex--a metaphysical Power/predicament that bears similarity to Kurt Vonnegut's "karass" from "Cat's Cradle" and is basically the source of coincidences, irony and abject horror. Special skill: the 30-second rule, whereupon mentioning a person summons them.
2) The Void--a more benevolent corollary of The Vortex, that provides things/items/people at the moment when they are needed
3) 37--the number of the Vortex. Sort of like 13 in the world at large.
4) being a Schindler--experiencing guilt at one's own complicity in matchmaking that went terriblty wrong. As in "I could have done more to prevent it"
5) Diachronically Challenged--a state of being, whereupon the person has a perpetual disconnect between the past, the present and the future, thus corrupting their understanding of causality, consistency and responsibility. Most notably, they use diachronically dependent signifiers like "I'll call you" to express a synchronic sentiment "I am having a good time right now in the moment" that will never fulfill its diachronic implication.
6) Metanegativity--a particularly annoying argumentative technique, in which the person in question insists that any sort of argument/discussion is pointless because communication is impossible in some sort of wanky solipsistic reductio ad absurdo.
7) Schrodinger's _______--used when it is unclear whether an event is commencing or not until one engages in it, where any attempts to preemptively define it change the result. So, a Schrodinger's Date (coined by Claire) is a date that's either happenning or not happening, and it's impossible to know which it is, until the proverbial box is open. Some useful applications may be derived from a mixed metaphor of Schrodinger's cat and Pandora's box.
8) Commodeification--sort of like reification, but more on the pomo commotity-fetishism-meets-metaphysics tip. See also pomodeification, pomodification and pomodefecation
1) The Vortex--a metaphysical Power/predicament that bears similarity to Kurt Vonnegut's "karass" from "Cat's Cradle" and is basically the source of coincidences, irony and abject horror. Special skill: the 30-second rule, whereupon mentioning a person summons them.
2) The Void--a more benevolent corollary of The Vortex, that provides things/items/people at the moment when they are needed
3) 37--the number of the Vortex. Sort of like 13 in the world at large.
4) being a Schindler--experiencing guilt at one's own complicity in matchmaking that went terriblty wrong. As in "I could have done more to prevent it"
5) Diachronically Challenged--a state of being, whereupon the person has a perpetual disconnect between the past, the present and the future, thus corrupting their understanding of causality, consistency and responsibility. Most notably, they use diachronically dependent signifiers like "I'll call you" to express a synchronic sentiment "I am having a good time right now in the moment" that will never fulfill its diachronic implication.
6) Metanegativity--a particularly annoying argumentative technique, in which the person in question insists that any sort of argument/discussion is pointless because communication is impossible in some sort of wanky solipsistic reductio ad absurdo.
7) Schrodinger's _______--used when it is unclear whether an event is commencing or not until one engages in it, where any attempts to preemptively define it change the result. So, a Schrodinger's Date (coined by Claire) is a date that's either happenning or not happening, and it's impossible to know which it is, until the proverbial box is open. Some useful applications may be derived from a mixed metaphor of Schrodinger's cat and Pandora's box.
8) Commodeification--sort of like reification, but more on the pomo commotity-fetishism-meets-metaphysics tip. See also pomodeification, pomodification and pomodefecation
