movies, cartoon, teenage crush, love, companionship, grammar

psychology, anticipation, mind set

psychology, academia, pretentious, language, educated

horror movies, vampire, zombie, cliché

determinism, morality, free will, faith, reductionism

time, space, memory, speculation, provability

evil genius, brains in vats, Rene Descartes, philosophy

gratitude, optimism, attitude

renewable power, feasibility, ecology, climate change

manners, rudeness, indifference, conversation

grotesque irony, rank obscenity, warfare, brotherhood, violence

Norway, NASA, nature, beauty, anomaly

authors, Mark Twain, God, bitterness

God, angels, employment, sarcasm

immortality, photography, vacation, anonymous

nature, death, toxicity, beauty

athletics, psychology, self-improvement, concentration, mental focus

politics, psychological manipulation, democracy, voters, fact, opinion

quotation, Lou Holtz, football, character, respect

human nature, psychology, villains, hypocrisy, inconsistency

God, all-powerful, loving, foreknowledge, cruel, inconsistent

foreboding, threatening, engaging

Thanksgiving, former student, gratitude

snowflakes, avalanche, nature, destruction

snowflakes, avalanche, nature, destruction

self-reference, language, inventiveness

self-reference, language, inventiveness

political power, social, ambition, aggression, character, work ethic, edgy

isolation, mountains, nature, human ingenuity

self-reference, rhetoric, persuasion, writing style, eloquence

science, particle physics, collider, taxpayer, economics, knowledge

Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, classical music, modernism, postmodernism, revolution

rhythms, nature, life, inevitability, love, tragedy

quotation, English literature, romanticism, poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla-Khan"

people, exceptional, mediocre

literature, poetry, science, Benoit Mandelbrot set, fractals, part, whole, Walt Whitman

God, creation, ideas, language, mind, infinity

narcolepsy, accident, plausible

hyperbole, eternal life, Christians, government programs

literature, indecision, procrasination, ambivalence, Shakespeare, Hamlet

intellectual, sophisticated, old-fashioned, ordinary common sense

nature, painting, mountain, movies, The Hobbit I

quotation, Hobbit I, Christ, irony, good, evil, little people, divine-child archetype

self-reference, contradiction, language

reading, fiction, characterization, psychology, literature, teachers

reading, comic books, superheroes, Batman, girlfriend

anxiety, inevitability, calmness, human nature

quotation, language, eloquence, common man, heartfelt sincerity, Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

diversity, humanity, possibilities

wrinkles, stress, uncertainty, strong-willed, stability

belly, beast, suffering, self-improvement, personal growth, psychology, Jonah, whale

anthropomorphizing God, humor, punchline, surprise

quotation, movies, Dune, mystery, life, process

modern world, prehistory, atheism, agnosticism, spirituality, storytelling, symbol, ritual, psychology, culture

physics, music, infinities, art

God, anthropomorphism

order, civilization, consent, order, civilization, chaos, entropy

might, consent, force, legitimacy, circumstance, politics, war, economics

ideas, perceptions, combine, re-combing, integration, arts, sciences, jigsaw puzzle

literature, language corruption, George Orwell, 1984, collectivism, dictatorship, psychology

parody, pseudo-intellectual, Fred Flintstone, profound, pre-history, literacy

education, learning, lesson, patience, imagination, empowerment

death, invention, life, Steve Jobs, apple, rationalization

hell, death, Christianity, literature, movies, George Orwell, 1984, Woody Allen

courageous, patient, persistence, heroic, thankful, Helen Keller

unusual food, dessert, German

evil, black hole, center of gravity, event horizon, temptation

banning books, censorship, mind control, free speech, education, informed electorate

Edmund Burke, conservatism, politics, good men, evil

thought control, George Orwell, "newspeak", 1984, concept, vocabulary

thought control, censorship, freedom of speech, limited government

self-reference, computer ads, annoyance

cosmic irony, absurdity, futility, meaninglessness

dying, death, afterlife, experience, awareness

writing, speech, literacy, political power, social influence, sword

postmodernism, neo-modernism, modernism

little things, symbol, stubbing toe, human condition

entropy, chaos, sameness, difference, society, equity, politics

psychological fads, new age, postmodernism, youth, play

American dream, Protestant work ethic, risk-taking, faith

precocious students, courtesy, maturity

allusion, William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming", evil, postmodernism, modernism

political language, bias, journalism, privilege

self-reference, truth, facts, credibility, fake news

geometry, perpendicular, form, content, self-reference

postmodernism, "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats, modernism, allusion

literature, poetry, T.S. Eliot, "Prufrock", nihilism, existential angst, pessimism, psychology, allusion

risk avoidance, trauma, anxiety, death, adventure

human interaction, friendship, honesty, deception, psychology, allusion

adolescence, immaturity, political, insecure, unstable

allusion, movies, Titanic, mountain

language, pseudo-intelligence, meaningless

history, technology, cosmology, knowledge, light-speed

psychology, personality, realistic, unrealistic, imaginative

psychology, acting, suicidal despair, tragedy, tenderness, love, verisimilitude, hypothalamus, emotion regulation

Communism, USSR, "red scare", movies, science-fiction, Hollywood, Body Snatchers, alien pods, individuality, social construction, postmodernism

quotations, Frank Zappa, television

antiques, collectibles, valuable, treasure, trinkets

mathematics factoring, history, numerology, 800