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which artfully combines a complete lack of aesthetic quality with a total disregard for the utilitarian function for which it is built.

Himmler's Ahnenerbe, an organization dedicated to providing both an intellectual framework for Nazism and Indiana Jones with an endless supply of disposable bad guys.

Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one.

In every system of sufficient complexity there are periods of inexplicable, and usually meaningless, disruption.

Before it was anything else, the doctrine of progress was a theory of white supremacy.

Thompson was, by all accounts, a confident man, and not one to be inconvenienced by ignorance if it happened

Ursula K. Le Guin: "One of our finest methods of organized forgetting is called discovery.")

hyphen) is a special metacharacter because it is only a metacharacter when used between [ and ]. Outside of a set, –

Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.

Underneath this stone doth lieAs much beauty as could die;Which in life did harbor giveTo more virtue than doth live.

Oh, I could still(Like melting snow upon some craggy hill)Drop, drop, drop, drop,Since nature's pride is, now, a wither'd daffodil.

Reader, look,Not at his picture, but his book.

The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand."… I loved the man [Shakespeare] and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.

Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Riches are in fortune A greater good than wisdom is in nature.

The opposite of a truth," Klaus quoted, "is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth"—pause for emphasis, sound of sprinklers, insects, push mowers, felt absence of city noise, Kenny Rogers from a passing car—"may be another profound truth.

Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

journalists (another tribe adept at misremembering the past)

As "a spur to rumor-spreading,"32 the crew was solemnly sworn to secrecy.

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, often translated as "Even Homer nods.

Secretly, he began to smuggle the family library out of the country: about two-thirds of the fifty thousand volumes would be saved.

One of the hazards of having a good idea is that intelligent people tend to realize it is a good idea and seek to play a part.

increased legibility of his handwriting only serves to reveal the inadequacy of his ability to spell

This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then maybe.