October 2011
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The London Observer, Monday, November 18th, 1822
WAR AND COMMERCE.—It is estimated that more than a million bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighborhood of Leipzig, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and the horse which he rode. Thus...
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Abner Jay - I’m So Depressed
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a sweet. You will never wind up the sucking-thumb Or scuttle off ghosts that come. You will never leave them, controlling your luscious...
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Subject–verb–object (I see him) English, Hebrew*, Vietnamese, Greek, Romance languages, Bulgarian, Chinese, Swahili, American Sign Language
Subject–object–verb (I him see) Japanese, Mongolian, Basque, Turkish, Korean, Sicilian, Latin (default), Ancient Greek, Hindi, Sanskrit
Verb–subject–object (See I him) Classical Arabic, Irish, Gaelic, Manx, Hawaiian, Ancient Egyptian, Maori
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Another species of Mr Emerson’s errors, or rather blindness, proceeds from a defect in the region of the heart.
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What opium is instilled into all disaster! It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought. People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and...
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The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
Directed...
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Endgame
—What are we waiting for, gathered in the agora?
The barbarians are arriving today.
—Why is nothing happening in the senate? Why do the senators sit making no laws?
Because the barbarians are arriving today. What laws can the senators make now? When the barbarians come, they will make laws.
—Why did our emperor...
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Shoplifting’s crucial historical moment occurred in the mid-nineteenth century, with the advent of department stores, which were designed by their owners as great machines for the simultaneous circulation of goods, women and money. The Industrial Revolution and empires took care of producing the goods; the women moved around the store in a trance of consumer desire; and the end product was...
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In a setting of nearly perfect material...
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