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I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:
Perhaps it is not as understudied or unremarked as I imagine, but psychometrician types who become convinced of their own extraordinary ability through high performance on tests they design are worthy of sustained reflection of the "but for the grace" type.
Help me summarize my key wins this quarter!
I support all Codex Sera.-related content.
A New Yorker piece from the 1930s mentions it, citing a World Almanac from around the turn of the century as the source. Didn't save the link, alas.
Got a little confused by the news, so I was looking up "plato tattoo," and it turns out there are several philosophical commentaries on the ethics and aesthetics of bodily adornment footnoting that doughty (not doughy, despite his name) figure.
He seemed like he had a strong naturalist interest, so I can't tell if he believed it, a kind of joke, etc.
I know it was in the almanac, but still it's a little credulous of Davenport to claim that geese lived for centuries.
Reading a book with my good Dutch, Letters from an Earthapple Eater.
Putting The Conchologist's First Book (1839) as an id item on exam.
To an impressive degree, it's all already in Lem.
It's a theory-of-mind thing. Arrows pass harmlessly through their rib cages, so they assume others will enjoy the thrill. Don't blame---educate!
For certain basic researches in literary science, I'm currently reading through every JSTOR entry for "marie roget" OR "marie rogêt" (trust but verify), and I came across "The Symbol of the Archaic" again, which I had to re-read, even though it's a cursory reference. It's just that damn good.
Ooh, a minor update to biblatex-swiss-legal!
I enjoy Slow Horses, but I'd like it even more if it were a pure office comedy, perhaps with a subtle bit of The Prisoner ‘vibe.’
Why is The Pound Era on that list? I should be well equipped to answer that question but have no idea.
It definitely seems like it is colonizing some lifeworlds.
I remember a long, fan-fiction style excursus on the subjects of rationalism, AI dangers, consciousness-uploading, Russian cosmism, the computer, and such topics called "The Canons of Joffrey." I can't find it anywhere.
Digimon is real? Does that imply the same for Digimon Otis?
I continue to experience this with John from Cincinnati, so I know what it's like.
Just typed my favorite publishers' location: Yonkers-on-Hudson. What, you're going to omit this? That's how you want to live?
Smiley has a Callot admired by Bill Haydon, as I remember. Probably not this one (?)
A chuck roast I tend to buy at Costco has increased in price by about 5/3s over the last month or so. I just saw another post wondering about levels of media coverage of this sort of thing between now and a couple of years ago.
you told them there were kobolds in the abandoned moathouse, and now you act surprised?
For intellectual arrogance, I don't think even the economists can match physicists. Literary scholars are also vicious, just lacking the solid methodological footing to land blows on each other.