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  • The Seforno on that phrase takes that same idea to the next level of mind-blowingness.

    Hail the vowel god! | Jewschool 2007

  • It really puts your brain in perspective when it comes to the size, complexity and utter mind-blowingness of our universe.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - That big huge religion thread. A repost for all that missed it. 2005

  • On March 04, 2009 at 09: 03 G The Art Spy wrote: I agree KT that "mind-blowingness" is subjective, but also one of the most important, personal yet objective catagories of art.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • See, it's comments like this that convince me that as a criterion for judging poetry, mind-blowingness has no merit.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • I think T.S. Eliot in his essay on Goethe talks about being able to recognize "mind-blowingness" in Goethe, but not experience it, until years later.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • See, it's comments like this that convince me that as a criterion for judging poetry, mind-blowingness has no merit.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • I think T.S. Eliot in his essay on Goethe talks about being able to recognize "mind-blowingness" in Goethe, but not experience it, until years later.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • I agree KT that "mind-blowingness" is subjective, but also one of the most important, personal yet objective catagories of art.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • Either way, I don't think it matters how many people point out that the editor is a good and totally non-sexist guy, that this anthology isn't trying to be representative of anything but mind-blowingness, that people from Japan and Germany write mind-blowing SF too yet there's no one complaining about the lack of translated stories, that including a Tiptree or other pseudonymous story would fail to function as an obvious indicator to an uninformed reader that the editor was trying to be inclusive of multiple social perspectives, etc.

    TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

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