January 2011
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It is the moment,” Jorge was now saying, “when everything will fall...
– The Name Of The Rose (Happy New Year)
December 2010
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But is the unicorn a falsehood? It’s the sweetest of animals and a noble...
– The Name Of The Rose
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The Blast Shack →
“Julian Assange’s extremely weird version of dissident “living in truth” doesn’t bear much relationship to the way that public life has ever been arranged. It does, however, align very closely to what we’ve done to ourselves by inventing and spreading the Internet. If the Internet was walking around in public, it would look and act a lot like Julian Assange. The Internet is about his age,...
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Hearing, a most excellent outward sense, “by which we learn and get...
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business.
– The Name Of The Rose
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And I could not help murmuring: “Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold,...
– The Name Of The Rose
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Really, as far at least as outward appearance and behavior went, there seemed...
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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The Dangers Of Externalizing Knowledge
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What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for...
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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Forget we now our state and lofty birth;
Not titles here, but works, must prove...
– The Iliad
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What eye has witness’d, or what ear believed,
In one great day, by one...
– The Iliad
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