April 2011
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“ … imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle...
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but, actually
ἵσως οὐδὲν πρᾶγμα ἔστι: “it ain’t no thang”
- Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro (7c)
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Dicebas quondam solum te nosse Catullum, Lesbia, nec prae me velle tenere Iouem. dilexi tum te non tantum ut vulgus amicam, sed pater ut gnatos diligit et generos. nunc te cognovi: quare etsi impensius uror, multo mi tamen es vilior et levior. qui potis est, inquis? quod amantem iniuria talis cogit amare magis, sed bene velle minus.
You used to say that you knew Catullus...
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andrewharlow:
Letter written for the families of the astronauts in the event that the Apollo moon mission in 1969 were to fail
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Martial 2.64
“… heia age, rumpe moras! quo te sperabimus usque? dum quid sis dubitas, iam potes esse nihil.”
Come on, stop delaying! By what shall we continually hope for you? While you hesitate on what you may be, at any moment, you could be nothing.
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The Trumpet of the Martians
by Khlebnikov, Siniakova, Bozhidar, Petnikov, and Aseev:
People of Earth, hear this!
The human brain until now has been hopping around on three legs (the three axis of location)! We intend to refurrow the human brain and give this puppy dog a fourth leg— namely, the axis of TIME. Poor lame puppy! Your obscene barking will no longer grate on our ears! People from the past were...
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T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
“And what the dead had speech for, when living They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living”
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“But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of...”
– Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (via goldencompass)
