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  • Speaking of ye ol' dayjob, I was interviewed by the Crotchety Old Fan, who wrote in part Nick Mamatas - also known as the Nihilistic Kid in his Livejournal incarnation - is one of those contemporary renaissance men you hear about but rarely meet; editor, writer, subverter of higher education, multiple award nominee in multiple genres, multiple translatee and champion of the Creative Commons.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • But my experiences, of which I have told you a good deal by word of mouth, have been, save for sundry personal details, very like those of thousands of other young Russians, who, unwilling and unable to accept quietly the order of things that weighs so heavily upon their country, have devoted all their strength and all their faculties to the great struggle for freedom, which you of Western Europe call the Nihilistic

    The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

  • I think Nihilistic Kid is probably right that it works better when you have a big scope, but I think you can even do it in short stories.

    intertribal: sorry if this is a really stupid issue. intertribal 2010

  • It's being developed by Nihilistic under the watchful gaze of original series developer Insomniac.

    Gamescom 2011: notes from the Sony PlayStation conference 2011

  • Nihilistic, tragic, oversexed and in many ways touching, Bowie Ibarra debuts with a real winner.”

    Down the Road Bowie Ibarra 2009

  • Nihilistic, tragic, oversexed and in many ways touching, Bowie Ibarra debuts with a real winner.”

    Down the Road Bowie Ibarra 2009

  • I don't know if I am being more Buddhist or Nihilistic.

    Take at Bedtime FUZZARELLY 2008

  • Because if you did you would understand that the church would not exist if faith were a Nihilistic choice of how it works.

    Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism 2005

  • A pre-Nihilistic type is also the character of Sophie in A

    A Desperate Character 2006

  • And hence the formidable spirit of the youthful generation that sacrificed itself in the Nihilistic movement: the strenuous action of ‘the youth’ once set in movement, the spirit of self-sacrifice impelled it calmly towards its goal despite all the forces and threats of fate.

    A Desperate Character 2006

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