Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal.

Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages

Best-selling author employs his masterful wit to expose historical myths, faux "facts," strange events, and tales of human stupidity throughout history.

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A young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw has a strange story: in 1869 his uncle Elias Openshaw had suddenly come back to England to settle on an estate at Horsham Sussex after living for years in the United States as a Planter in Florida and serving as a Colonel in the Confederate Army.

Not being married, Elias had allowed his nephew to stay at his estate. One strangeness is that although John could go anywhere in the house he could never enter a locked room with his Uncle's trunks. A second strangeness was in March 1883

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High Strangeness - Hyperdimensions and the Process of Alien Abduction

High Strangeness is an enlightening attempt to weave together the contradictory threads of religion, science, history, alien abduction, and the true nature of political conspiracies. With thorough research and a drive for the truth, Laura Knight-Jadczyk strips away the facades of official culture and opens doors to understanding our reality. The Second Edition adds new material that explains the hyperdimensional mechanisms by which our reality is controlled and shaped by the 'alien' overlords. The self-serving actions of unwitting puppets - psychopaths and other pathological types