June 2011
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moar blags
That I wrote.
1. Vid’ya games 2. Music
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a...
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via mymindcravesnectar)
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De Re Publica
“[That cosmic music] is produced by the onward rush and motion of the astral bodies themselves; the intervals between them, though unequal, being exactly arranged in a fixed proportion, by an agreeable blending of high and low tones various harmonies are produced; for such mighty motions cannot be carried on so swiftly in silence; and Nature has provided that one extreme shall produce low...
Progress
This one’s actually good. I’m excited to see how my writing style evolves. Maybe Latin will stop being such a bad influence….!
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“Smells Like Content”
Balance. Repetition. Proposition. Mirrors.
Most of all, the world is a place where parts of wholes are described within an overarching paradigm of clarity and accuracy. The context in which makes possible an underlying sense of the way it all fits together, despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such. But then again, the world without end is a...
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De Re Publica
Is it not uncanny how close Cicero’s words are to describing the American ideal of government?
Si vero ius suum populi teneant, negant quicquam esse praestantius, liberius, beautius, quipe qui domini sint legum, iudiciorum, belli, pacis, foederum, capitis unius cuiusque, pecuniae. Hanc unam rite rem ublicam, id est rem populi, appellari putant…
Facillimam autem in ea re ublica esse...