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There used to be a place called Vietnam. Where numbers had weapons called soldiers. And guns had wings called repercussions. Vietnam was eventually apprehended by mathematicians.

001260

Because I could never actually escape the store. And money was after me like a dragon licking an icicle.

001261

The processes of representational cognition are transparent in the face of their products. Thereby we know what their results are, but nothing of how they were produced…

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“We can live any way we want. The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse.” — Annie Dillard, “Living Like Weasels”

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Result: enhanced sensitivity to flavor and scent… an approximately 3-fold magnification…