I remember when Salon used to be good!

http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1998/11/cov_09feature2.ht...

http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1998/11/cov_09feature.htm... is page one of story linked to in the parent comment.

It is an interesting sensation to reread this 7 years later ( 3 of those spent in the SF Bay area). The intro describing Murray's day to day life and circumstances are disturbingly familiar to me.

>"Mostly free e-books from the Gutenberg Project. Descartes' "Meditations" are some heavy shiznit."

Why wound a perfectly good read with words like "shiznit"?

shiznit is a technical term in analytic philosophy meaning "this philosopher holds the predominance of public acclaim on a relatively obscure and completely misunderstood idea of his"

in my mind the character used words like that sarcastically

(2002)

>He felt the sores on his body dry up and start to slough off. He was hungry enough that he actually caught himself peeling off the scabby cornflakes and eating them. It grossed him out, but he was hungry.

:)