User talk:Nightmiler

Nightmiler (aka Maher Coen) is a Wiki and Wikipedia user (from March 2007), and occasionally still creates content on this site, despite its evident dominance by various forms of fascist (OK?), who have more-or-less cured him of the desire to contribute much more.

Maher finally read Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in January 2009, two years after reading Heller's "Catch 22" at the age of thirty-four. What he can't figure out is why someone didn't ram it down his throat when he was seventeen? He didn't understand sex until he read Schopenhauer's "On the Metaphysics of Sexual Love", one of the few direct influences on (and acknowledged by) Freud. Alternatively, Giger's pictures sometimes paint a thousand codons, particularly Landscape XVIII (and far more so than the notorious Landscape XX, aka 'Penis Landscape').

His ongoing Wikipedia project is the entry for Peter Niesewand. All comments on that or anything he's done are gratefully received, if not gracefully. He'd particularly like to hear from other fans of Niesewand's best novel, Undercut.

Maher's favourite films include Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys", Fincher's Se7en/Fight Club, and many Eastwood films, especially "Mystic River" and the underrated "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". His favourite saying is that "love has been left to amateurs to explain", which he used to wear on the back of his viz-vest, despite the (french) origin of 'amateurs' being explained to him. He don't like France so much, except for Nicolas in Lamalou. He loves mountains though, even French ones. His favourite words are 'languidity' (cf. languor) and 'acquiesce'.

He lives in the UK, and is emailable at nightmileage.com. Try wkp@ni..

MaherCoen (talk) 05:52, 1 February 2009 (UTC) (Home Page)[reply]

TALK[edit]

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Nightmiler, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} after the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! - HammerHeadHuman (talk) 06:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"This world and I are not good friends: it's good to know that nothing ends."

Not true here, sadly. Wiki Admins regularly use the 'patent nonsense' excuse to erase entire talk pages, and Wikipedia increasingly resembles James Maynard Keenan's on-going war in which "the creative people are losing", a remark originally aimed at corporate publishing only. WP is a historical process that will take stupidly-many years to affirm that "categorization is a sin". MaherCoen (talk) 05:13, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

w/ Banno (user/talk)[edit]

Thanks for your email. The changes you have made are certainly an improvement; the section on intentionality was badly needed. My only comment would be that the best way to avoid having your work removed is to reference it well. Generally the Searle article falls well-short of the expected standard; a self-criticism, since it is substantially my own work. But if you have a copy of Intentionality to hand, it might be worth your while to include a few page numbers in your entries. See Wikipedia:Citation templates for info, and Ludwig Wittgenstein for an example of how it might be done. Best wishes, and may the Trolls not notice your excellent work. Banno 19:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Direction of fit[edit]

Hi Maher. I've just responded to your comment on the discussion page of the Direction of fit article. Anthony (talk) 21:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]