October 2011
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“Men are continually in search of some sequestered retreat, some villa on the...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
September 2011
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Porcupine Tree - “Feel So Low”...
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“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but...”
– Thoreau, Walden
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The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells, 1898)
The War Of The Worlds is, most importantly, a book about the dangers of complacency. While Wells’ imagination and knack for a rolling narrative are worth applauding any day, the book is not at its heart a heroic adventure. Like The Time Machine, it is a warning. In that book he caricatured the erosion of humanity’s most important qualities; in this one, his message is more direct: the...
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Raising the Fawn - “Drownded” The...
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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a...”
– Thoreau, Walden
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Kaspar Hauser revisited →
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Tape - “Switchboard Fog” Milieu
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Vocabulary: Touch Of Turf Edition
synarchy: a “joint rule” form of government, now with conspiratorial connotations cicatrix: new tissue over a wound, or the scar left on a plant by a fallen leaf ordure: excrement, or figuratively speaking, an offensive action demiurge: creator of the universe, not necessarily God amatory: expressive of, pertaining to, or inciting love greensward: grassy turf or an area covered in such...
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“The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and...”
– David Copperfield
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“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”
– Thoreau, Walden