January 2012
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What group of 800 American intellectuals would miss both the Democratic National Convention and the opening of the World Chess Championship to make the round trip to a point 900 miles out in the North Atlantic indistinguishable from any neighboring point? savings bonds for urban outfitters Iroko wood dust is known to be carcinogenic. (why???)
The Yetzer Reb would be the pub you’d open...
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duchy, the domain of a duke. county, the domain of a count. Therefore, ‘Dracula County.’ When Mr. Lai’s colleagues ran outside, dark smoke was mixing with a light rain Postman Pat themed prawn cocktail corn snacks
Other sweet onions such as the crystal wax A minced oath is an expression based on a profanity or a taboo term that has been altered to reduce the objectionable characteristics.
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meat shucked off the bones, stacked on the plate / high like a barrow panic’s peppery taste flowing along the sides of the tongue, [gaining] the tip
“The Government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining information,” Scalia wrote. “We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been considered a ‘search’ within the meaning...
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SIC TRANSIT EVERYTHING does forgiveness feel more like forgetting or defeat? californian is the only handicap
pseudotumor cerebri
Box canyon
identifying marks: scar of left arm May this be for you the whirligig of time that brings in his revenges. jams from the orchard in Arlington national cemetery
words are what have no use without their connotation
list of translations better than the...
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As argued by Geoffery Wheatcroft in a review of Cesarani’s biography, philandering on this scale is neurotic: a man driven to copulate with as many women as possible not only has difficulty establishing happy relations with women, or regarding them as equals, but does not like women. Well Tom it’s going to come down to one thing: who wants to die more from poison skinning a polished...
Phil Philips and the Twilights - Sea of Love
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Songs Ohia - John Henry Split My Heart
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And now the Consul was in the bathroom getting ready to go to Tomalín. “Oh…” he said, “Oh…” But, you see, nothing so dire has happened after all. First to wash. Sweating and trembling again, he took off his coat and shirt. He had turned on the water in the basin. Yet for some obscure reason he was standing under the shower, waiting in an agony for the...
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But he could feel now, too, trying the prelude, the preparatory nostalgic phrases on his wife’s senses, the image of his possession, like that jewelled gate the desperate neophyte, Yesod-bound, projects for the thousandth time on the heavens to permit passage of his astral body, fading, and slowly, inexorably, that of a cantina, when in dead silence and peace it first opens in the...
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“It’s too bad,” [Irving] Kristol lamented. “I think it would be natural for the United States … to play a far more dominant role in world affairs. Not what we’re doing now but to command and to give orders as to what is be done. People need that. There are many parts of the world – Africa in particular – where an authority willing to use troops can make a very good difference, a healthy...
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As a senior in college, I read parts of Dummett’s “Frege: Philosophy of Language” for a term paper on Frege. I was blown away by it and started reading everything by Dummett I could find. It got so bad that I went to Oxford in 1985, as a Marshall Scholar, specifically to study with Dummett. It took me a semester’s worth of begging to get him to take me on, but it was worth it for an hour or...
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