December 2010
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Los Halos - “Reasons To Smile” Leaving...
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“I poured out whatever came into my mind, out of a confused company of notes, and...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
November 2010
22 posts
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Interview with Julian Assange (Forbes) →
You’ve developed a reputation as anti-establishment and anti-institution.
Not at all. Creating a well-run establishment is a difficult thing to do, and I’ve been in countries where institutions are in a state of collapse, so I understand the difficulty of running a company. Institutions don’t come from nowhere.
It’s not correct to put me in any one philosophical or economic camp, because I’ve...
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Autolux - “Headless Sky” Transit...
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“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
– Emerson
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“His face was certainly overcast with anxiety, but his soul was calm and...”
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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Maserati - “Pyramid Of The Sun”...
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“For these men devoted to writing, the library was at once the celestial...”
– The Name Of The Rose
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Growing - “Fancy Period” Color Wheel
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“To see men wholly led by affection, admired and censured out of opinion without...”
– The Anatomy Of Melancholy
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“They are universally considered to be the finest ever bred in England, and are...”
– The Tower Menagerie (Bengal Lion)
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Matmos - “Regicide” The Civil War
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Vocabulary: Gothic Gable Edition
enthymeme: an argument in which obvious or known premises are excluded for brevity cenacle: an upper-floor dining room (esp. where the Last Supper took place) finial: an ornamental flourish at the top of a spiral, gable, or italic letter ogival: a diagonal rib of a pointed, Gothic arch (or the arch itself) viscid: sticky, glutinous, or covered in substance of that kind cognomen: the third, nick,...
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“The receding depths of time and space, though they can indeed be haltingly...”
– Olaf Stapledon, Last And First Men
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Tarentel - “Bump Past, Cut Through...
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