“It burned a hatred and fear of thinking machines so deeply into the human psyche that one wonders if that would has yet completely healed.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: Dune’s Warning About Thinking Machines
Sick burns, y’all! Continue reading Commonplace Book: Fernando Pessoa’s sick burns
“the steam shovel, dry, vomits stone” Continue reading Commonplace Book: “Steam Shovel,” by Kirby Congdon
“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: George Orwell on Patriotism and Nationalism
Merry Christmas from Louis MacNiece. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Merry Christmas from Louis MacNiece
“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics.” — EP Continue reading Commonplace Book: Ezra Pound on Poetry and Mathematics
Beware of pity. Continue reading Commonplace Book: Balzac on Pity
Bendy words heaped into bulwarks. Continue reading Commonplace Book: 3 Random Passages from Richard Makin Novels
“With every minute you change a mind,
And call him noble that was now your hate,
Him vile that was your garland.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: Coriolanus and the mob
“They were living in America pandemically.” Continue reading Commonplace Book: John Ashbery, Prophet
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