He started writing his new book, Instructions, Guidelines, Tutelage, Suggestions, Other Suggestions and Examples Etc., as "light relief", an outlet for some of his more peculiar thoughts.
Perhaps the best thing about American mass culture, however stultifying it might be, is the quality of the dissent it tends to generate: the music of David Byrne, for instance, or the peculiar thoughts of David Sedaris.
Go without sleep for a night or two and you're likely to experience some very peculiar thoughts and feelings (as demonstrated by a recent study of sailors in solo races).
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out — the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past — all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.
Three arguments have been buttressed to dismantle the Russellian disdain for the peculiar intentionality of singular thoughts expressible by proper names: a modal argument, an epistemological argument and what can be called a "transcendental" argument.
Ms. Glück is an inspired choice because she excels in doing the kind of thing that only lyric poetry can do, which is among the most intimate, nonpublic things words can do: mimic the peculiar music of thought itself.
As an advocate of the philosopher Ayn Rand, Ditko is a believer in objectivism, that peculiar school of thought that promotes hardline capitalism and the pursuit of individual, self-serving goals and personal happiness as the only legitimate and rational way forward for the human race.
For the naturalist to meet Brentano's challenge, she must show that this peculiar aspect of thought is not so puzzling after all.
But Lotze remained immovable on his central motif: "the peculiar nature of thought and the very close connection between it and language" (Micro, I, 619).
