The Nein Quarterly

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Nein. A Compendium of Utopian Negation. Ed: Eric Jarosinski. All views: solely reflect NQ's cynical whimsy. All errors: yours alone. NeinQuarterly@gmail.com

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1. 2hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   Snowlidarity. pic.twitter.com/5XcmJwc9

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2. 2hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   Take some time for ü this weekend.

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3. 4hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   Smart bombs. (via @janmpdx) pic.twitter.com/IlHkpxLo

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4. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   Love is pre-posthumous publication.

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5. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   I sometimes wonder why the title "The Naked and the Dead" is so good, but "The Dead and the Naked" is so bad.

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6. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   Act 1: Boy meets girl. Act 2: Girl meets boy. Act 3: Boy and girl meet the trials and tribulations of Valentine's Day. Act 4: Death.

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7. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   I remember when German education ministers had legitimate doctorates. A simpler time.

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8. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   It's a shame the last shred of human decency didn't live to see Twitter.

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9. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

   Don't think of it as deleting a tweet, but as a step toward self-realization.

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10. 5hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    @amaeryllis Danke!

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11. 6hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Philly knows from barrel fires. pic.twitter.com/V0ZPVTRS

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12. 7hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    If you ask me, #fridayreads way too much into things.

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13. 7hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Thank Horkheimer it's Freitag. pic.twitter.com/NN3POVt2

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14. 7hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Thank the Relentless March of Time it's Friday.

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15. 8hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Thank Goethe it's Friday.

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16. 17hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is words coming out to play.

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17. 17hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is ja. But sometimes nein.

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18. 17hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Aesthetic theories are never pretty.

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19. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 10: Fascists are bad fucks.

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20. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 9: Novalis means Novalis.

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21. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 8: chocolate.

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22. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 7: When it comes to positions, nothing beats the "wheelbarrow full of worthless Reichsmarks."

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23. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 6: ich lube dich.

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24. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 5: What dies in Venice stays in Venice.

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25. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 4: Speak German. Lots and lots of German.

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26. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 3: Negative dialectics.

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27. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 2: You're even hotter than s/he says you are.

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28. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Sex tip 1: feel things.

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29. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is explaining that your avatar is a cartoon Theodor W. Adorno with a photoshopped monocle.

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30. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    If you're not drunk, please go to bed.

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31. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Listen, Socratic method, we want answers. Now.

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32. 18hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Don't fuck with my friends LCD Soundsystem. Just don't.

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33. 19hacosmic ‏@its_rhetorical

    I'm sort of curious about what it would be like to date@NeinQuarterly I feel like the psychosexual mind games would be top notch.

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34. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Fuck love. Tweets are about death.

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35. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is not what makes the world go round. That's capital. But, hey, fuck capital.

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36. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is admitting that you both could not adequately define blank verse.

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37. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is never having to say you only pretend to be a misanthrope on Twitter.

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38. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is when she sees the smile you hide behind your scowl.

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39. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is letting her tickle your Tickle Me Werner Herzog.

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40. 19hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is when you add Umlauts to her name.

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41. 22hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    If beauty is truth, and truth beauty, then beauty is not beauty, and truth not truth.

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42. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Intention died so that the death of the author might live.

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43. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    You've seen one synecdoche's death, you've seen'm all.

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44. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Personification died as it lived.

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45. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Metanarratives fear that death itself is dying.

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46. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Subtext only dies on the inside.

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47. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Alliteration d, d, d, dies.

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48. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Libertines often lay dying.

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49. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Tragic irony doesn't know it's dying, but we do.

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50. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Foreshadowing just keeps saying it's going to die.

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51. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Leitmotifs die, die, and then die some more.

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52. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Symbols only die symbolically.

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53. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Similes never die. They just stop liking things.

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54. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    All metaphors die alone.

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55. 23hNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Just your weekly reminder that Nietzsche doesn't rhyme with peachy.

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56. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Twitter as Lord Chandos chain letter.

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57. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    If Rilke had lived to see Twitter, I imagine he would DM a young poet.

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58. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Twitter as theater of the repressed.

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59. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    A good manifesto is hard to find.

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60. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Look, if you're going to commodify me, you should also have the decency to fetishize me.

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61. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    My use value was eclipsed by my exchange value. What's your excuse?

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62. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Anyone seen my drone?

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63. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    It's never easy to tell your Doppelgänger he's just not your type.

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64. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Love is never having to say Adorno's sorry.

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65. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    Twitter is the sum of ergo minus cogito.

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66. 7 FebNein. ‏@NeinQuarterly

    The ineffable can go ef itself.

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