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  • I do this for two reasons: to get what is owed to me but mostly to drive up the costs of rebate fulfillments for the sellers.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Irrational 2010

  • I am leaning that way in light of the very vivid New Testament narratives that seem to be (at least partial) fulfillments.

    Heheheheheh « Unknowing 2010

  • No longer do they aspire to the privileges and prerogatives of the free woman; let her continue to live in her house of inhibition and convention; let her have her frigidities, jealousies and shams; they have found something a thousand times more precious, their meaning, their significance, their happiness, their joy, their fulfillments, their collars.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • The lantern is rubbed, out swooshes the genie, and wish fulfillments rain down.

    Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

  • I pity even my free sisters of Gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and fulfillments which are mine, and I pity a thousand times more my miserable free sisters of Earth, so far away, longing for their collars and masters!

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • Both are expedient wish-fulfillments, attempts to deny the reality of an aesthetic stance that might interfere with one's enjoyment of a text, intellectual or sensational, limiting us or distracting us by insisting on a certain (specific and determined) agenda.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (2) Hal Duncan 2008

  • Both are expedient wish-fulfillments, attempts to deny the reality of an aesthetic stance that might interfere with one's enjoyment of a text, intellectual or sensational, limiting us or distracting us by insisting on a certain (specific and determined) agenda.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Indeed, the destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 70 and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 could be seen as fulfillments of what Jesus said…….but he did NOT return.

    Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • "I would not wish to make it a matter of meanings, " I said, -but, empirically, it does seem to be pretty much a matter of the condition, a function of its fulfillments, and such.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • They cannot be fooled by empty rhetoric and new-in-box and never used consumer fantasies and tear-down houses-but-not-homes, a world of entirely substitute and extraneous fulfillments (death by ten thousand sugar highs) for very long.

    James Block: The Specter of the Counterculture II: The Cunning of Desire 2009

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