March 2012
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“Sape homo de vanae gloriae contemptu vanius gloriatur. A man can be most...”
– St. Augustine, Confessions
Mar 1st
February 2012
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“Vivere nolunt, mori nesciunt. They will not die; they dare not live.”
– Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Feb 26th
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“Let us not carry flame where light alone will suffice.”
– Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Feb 25th
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We’ll Handle Google And Apple, Mr. President; You... →
Feb 24th
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ListenFennesz - “Glide” Black Summer This...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 18th
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“‘I feel: therefore I exist.’ I feel bodies which are not myself:...”
– Thomas Jefferson (in correspondence)
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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“The light of history is pitiless; it has this strange and divine quality that,...”
– Les Miserables
Feb 14th
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ListenHoly Fuck - Lovely Allen LP These guys sound a...
Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast...”
– Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
Feb 11th
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“The Monuments that mightie Monarches reare, Colosso’s statues, and...”
– Henry Peacham, Minerva Brittana
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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“If a man be wealthy, no matter how he gets it, of what parentage, how qualified,...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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ListenA Weather - “It’s Good To Know”...
Feb 9th
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WatchWatch
It Is Something Invisible
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Vocabulary: Smooth Oppilator Edition
purly: Anglicization of “purlieu,” meaning outskirts of forest or city (esp. hunting) deliquium: in chemistry, melting or dissolution; elsewhere, a faint or swoon adust: dried, burned, or darkened by heat, or gloomy in look or manner myrachial: no definition. Apparently a synonym for hypochondriacal dummerer: a person who feigns dumbness (i.e. lack of voice) oppilate: to block or stop...
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Forty-three translations of Hadrian's "Animula,...
While English translations of Latin necessarily miss the poetic intention of the original somewhat, the effort is still worth making, sometimes again and again for hundreds of years. Hadrian’s paean to his departing soul, while its inherent quality is apparently suspect, has nevertheless furnished scores of translations in English alone. Here are a good number, more than can be found...
Feb 5th
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ListenFather John Misty - “Hollywood Forever...
Feb 4th
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“Syracuse started flat, with used-car dealers and junkyards. Then came stucco...”
– Richard Stark, The Outfit
Feb 3rd