March 2010
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February 2010
57 posts
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“- a period throughout which the wealth of nations was scattered like sand, and...”
– Creasy, Battles
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The Beach Boys - “Our Prayer” 20/20
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“He faltered not nor feared, But quickly went his way; His road was rough and...”
– Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Alexander Graham Bell, some tetrahedral kites, and other.
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“The chief corner-stone suddenly found wanting in the glittering fabric of Mr...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year (just try making sense of it in one go)
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“Do you think me mad enough to beard a lion or try to outwit a Thrasymachus?”
– Plato, The Republic (Socrates chiding Thrasymachus)
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TK Webb & The Visions - “Closed...
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“And here we must observe that men must either be cajoled or crushed; for they...”
– Machiavelli, The Prince (wise, but scary)
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The For Carnation - “A Tribute To” The...
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“The splendors of human pomp and prosperity seemed rapidly vanishing in the...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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“In the name of all that is manly and generous”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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Fieldhead - “This Train Is A Rainbow”...
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“You may say it is not so easy to be wicked without ever being found out. Perhaps...”
– Plato, The Republic (Adeimantus)
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“Neither famine nor disaster ever haunt men who do true justice; but...”
– Hesiod, Works and Days
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“We must endow our man with the full complement of injustice; we must allow him...”
– Plato, The Republic (Glaucon describing a paragon of injustice)
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Jan Ladislav Dussek - Sonata for harp Anna Lelkes,...
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“Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”
– Samuel Johnson
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Nudge - “Two Hands” As Good As Gone
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Bad Google! →
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"We have the Leader. We have the Army. We have the... →
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Cave - “Gamm” Psychic Psummer
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Charlie Brooker on Creationism →
“This is perhaps the most arrogant belief a human skull can contain without exploding. After all, God has far better things to do than creating self-important little species such as ours. He’s got wars, deaths, disasters and diseases to ignore for starters.”
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“But as a man of sense you must understand that the way to reconquest cannot be...”
– Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
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“The theatre over, they would repair to some cloudy tavern, full of noise and...”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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Arthur & Yu - “1000 words” In...
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“…at the upper end on the raised dais was a couch of juniper wood set with...”
– The third Lady of Baghdad in The Arabian Nights
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“Presently the door swung back and both leaves were opened, whereupon he looked...”
– The second Lady of Baghdad in The Arabian Nights
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“She raised her face veil and, showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes,...”
– The first Lady of Baghdad in The Arabian Nights
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