December 2011
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“One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
– Thoreau, Walden
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“Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyses and dissects its...”
– Les Miserables
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“Set not thy foot to make the blind to fall; Nor wilfully offend thy weaker...”
– Pybrac, Quatrains (17th c.)
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“Then he asked himself: If he were the only one who had done wrong in the course...”
– Les Miserables
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mowing the lawn: stories and photos of low-level... →
This was way more interesting than I thought it would be.
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Vocabulary: Corporeal Grandiloquence Edition
perorate: to speak formally or at great length, or to conclude a speech in such a way irredenta: a region allied by race or history to one country but ruled by another naometer: apparently a title given in secret societies. Possibly a fabrication. abnegation: self-denial, or the relinquishment of a right or property anchylosis: the adhesion or growing together of bones in a joint tendentious:...
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“The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called the Avenger: it is not...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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The City & The City (China Mieville, 2009)
This book has been recommended by many a shelf tag in book stores, and won a number of prizes last year, or maybe the year before. At any rate, like The Wind-Up Girl, it was showered with praise and I looked forward to being pleasantly surprised by one of the more critically-acclaimed sci-fi books out there. Alas, I have been deceived again, and while the book is certainly not bad, it’s...
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“So parents often err, many fond mothers especially, doat so much upon their...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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chromatic typewriter →
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Au Revoir Borealis - “Bella Ballerina”...
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“Many mortal men came to see fair Psyche, the glory of her age, they did admire...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy (paraphrasing Apuleius)
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