October 2009
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There ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at...
– The Hound of the Baskervilles
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
– Sherlock Holmes
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Words come later. It is the scent that first speaks of love.
– Worf
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The little frost-work which Titmouse had thrown around his heart, began to melt...
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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Bellmour: But tell me how you would be ador’d — I am very tractable.
– Congreve, The Old Batchelor
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What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveller, and gold-digger, and how...
– Sherlock Holmes
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The injury therefore that you do to a man should be such that you need not fear...
– Machiavelli, The Prince
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“Is it possible to imagine modalities of radical participation on the universe of brands and at the same time present oneself as an advertising agency? Is it possible for the professionals of communication not to give up their own political ideas in carrying out their job? Guerrigiamarketing.it is still a bet that is up against demands of income and the need not to betray this...
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Then the gentle breeze would enter her window, laden with sweet scents of which...
– Samuel Warren - Ten Thousand A-Year
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If triangles had gods, their gods would have three sides.
– ?
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It has come to my attention that there are zonkeys.
Linked to on Metafilter - loving it →
It’s nice to see something I wrote showing up on the web (even though I nabbed it from Gizmodo). I stand by my assessment!
Ebert on being a book lover →
I wouldn’t have guessed Ebert for a sentimental book collector like myself. Nice little read.
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Vocabulary: Final Shandean Edition
hypallage: a reversal of an expected phrasing (i.e. doing well -> well doing) renversé: a French term, meaning something performed with a bent waist toise: an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.4ft (almost exactly 2m) quinsy: an outdated term for some forms of tonsil-related disease obliquity: divergent - mathematically, astronomically, or mentally iracundulous: a redundant addition to...
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Micro pigs. MICRO PIGS
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