Everybody is confronted with profundity, by the raw awe of living. It’s just that not everyone insists on making it everyone else’s business. Relax.
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Remember officers, sacrifice is a value reflected universally in
Remember officers, sacrifice is reflected universally in religions and secular frameworks, a value that becomes self-evident upon reflection, and a value which civil law enforcement is unlikely to ever cease demanding be made manifest by those in its charge.
Among peers, language can be used for communication, otherwise it creates a world...
Among peers, language can be used for communication, otherwise it creates a world for the reader to inhabit, populated with whatever you’re talking about. It is a big responsibility, especially for public writers, i.e. journalists. Communicate to your colleagues, but just tell the people the story. Let them decide what it means.
Isn't Dogmatic, Pedantic & Servile an intellectual property law firm?
A quote from Agnes Callard in an essay Art Is for Seeing Evil There is a certain noble lie that we tell students about art. I was told it, and I hear it retold often by those defending great books and humanistic education. The lie is that art is a vehicle for personal moral edification or social progress, that art aims at empathy and happiness and world peace and justice and democracy and the brotherhood of man.
Good god—sorry for all of the obviously he hasn’t read this at all type of typos. [ EDIT: this of course refers to some typographical errors I made in the last post, which I have of course now gone back into and corrected, because who wants to leave that stuff laying around, right? ]
Not that anyone gives a hoot, but we notice even if we don’t say anything, right? Right.
To comfort you in this desperate time let me share this typo. It happens to all of us, one way or another.
Frankfurt am Main - City Center
This is not a great reproduction, but it is a great map, especially for tourists at the time.
Feudal Quotes
They’re reading? So what? What the fuck do we care that they’re reading? Look at us. Look at this sword—look at this fucking castle! What are they gonna do, throw books at us?