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“I never said I wouldn’t hold the statue of that half-skeletal owl responsible for the end of civilization as we failed to understand it.” — infraheard

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“Back in college days, I was interested in Benjamin Lee Whorf and, because of his writings on the Hopi language, tried to learn it for a brief while. Whorf described “aspects” of verbs, which are not conjugations or moods, or declensions like nouns....

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Nonetheless, clouds roil and transform. During the day, there are no stars. Did you ever find the brightness absolutely remarkable?

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^ “The opportunity we face is the flip side of a problem that has become endemic; the transports across which we communicate, perhaps especially this one, are owned. And the interests that own them are, by being corporate, nonhuman. Whoever...

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Fragment of The Ritual … approach the tree you are bonded with … with adoration and reverence. Acquire the substance. … With the index finger of the dominant (or non dominant) hand, place the substance above and between the eyebrows … Intone:...

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“I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is … really...