March 2011
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Vocabulary: Recurring Herder Edition
jument: an ox, mule, or other beast of burden (from the Latin “jumentum”) recrudescence: revival or reappearance after a period of dormancy carle: a peasant or laborer (var. carl, from old Norse for karl, “man”) quartan: something, usually a fever, recurring every fourth day grazier: a rancher or farmer who grazes livestock on his land ambage: an indirect method of...
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White Rabbits - “Percussion Gun”...
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“It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen’s books, as if we might...”
– David Copperfield
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“The best men are not consistent in good - why should the worst men be consistent...”
– The Woman In White
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for sale, fibonacci's liber abaci (with bonus... →
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“I entered a little room, with a flaring paper, of the largest pattern, on the...”
– The Woman In White
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“Seeking to avoid Scylla, they fall into Charybdis.”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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“Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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Lia Ices - “Daphne” Grown Unknown
I...
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obtained: suitcase record player →
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Songs:Ohia - “Hold On Magnolia”...
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On Nuclear Power: Regulating Our Reaction →
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“If, in conformity to right reason, you transact whatever affairs you have in...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“Although you should live three thousand or three myriads of years, yet observe,...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Disasterpeace - “Ensis” Rise of the...
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photos from barcelona →
A few shots from my short stay in Spain in February.
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“If he wants to keep a whole skin on his bones, I recommend him not to come back...”
– The Woman In White
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“But I am over-tedious in these toys, which howsoever, in some men’s too...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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Reveries of a Bachelor (Ik Marvel, 1847)
This winning book was a find in the “Old and interesting” section of Half Price Books. I learn from the foreword and some little research that it was a wildly popular production early in the history of Scribner, in which the author muses about love and life, riffing on whatever is nearby. This admittedly sounds like a recipe for a sentimentalist disaster, or a collection of trite...
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The Ivytree - “The Book Of Job” Winged...
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“Why do you suffer yourself thus to be the sport of accidents, and your mind...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“From my governor (who had the care of the earlier part of my education) I...”
– Extracts from the Meditations of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Fagerborg Kindergarten, Oslo, Norway →
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how the internet gets inside us →
“When the electric toaster was invented, there were, no doubt, books that said that the toaster would open up horizons for breakfast undreamed of in the days of burning bread over an open flame; books that told you that the toaster would bring an end to the days of creative breakfast, since our children, growing up with uniformly sliced bread, made to fit a single opening, would never know...
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the average of every person in the world →
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Kinski - “New India” Be Gentle With...
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“Out of this nettle danger, I’ll yet pluck the flower safety.”
– Ten Thousand A-Year
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WatchA prominence captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
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