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fiefoe"But, as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. "
“A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.”
― Christopher Hitchens
posted by psergio at 10:53 PM on December 15
Rome is that cafe bathroom with a curved wall that proves it is where Caesar was assassinated.
What is a modern person? One reasonable answer is “someone who uses consequentialism and political science.”
http://www.metafilter.com/131144/Ex-Urbe
Paul’d have no way of knowing that it would be left out of orthodox scripture a few centuries later; that’s why he admonishes women in church to cover their hair, because angels hang out around churches.
Therefore Mary must have never died. But where is she? Answer: She was assumed, still living, into heaven. And the Assumption is the other time the Pope has asserted infallibility.
http://www.metafilter.com/131937/The-Bible-as-fanwank-and-flamewars
Flynn, in his state of filmstar ennui, was quick to exploit this deficiency of barbary gut function. Gathering a pen of pretty mallard, he would throw in a lump of fat on a string. In a blink, duck one gobbles it up. Here's the science part. Nature soon takes its course and the deposit in question is hanging, on its string, out of the unfortunate bird's puckered anus. Can it be long before another victim takes the bait? No sir.
Cato on Socrates (from "In Our Time"): "truculent prattler"
The blacks Rembrandt used were “almost always provided by bone or ivory black, prepared, as the name suggests, from animal bones or waste ivory by charring in a closed crucible.”
In this shoreline museum of carnage there were abandoned rolls of barbed wire and smashed bulldozers and big stacks of thrown-away lifebelts and piles of shells still waiting to be moved.
Always there are dogs in every invasion. There is a dog still on the beach today, still pitifully looking for his masters.
We were reading Montaigne, and one line—as soon as I read it—jumped out at me.
"I write to compose myself."
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“A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.”
― Christopher Hitchens
posted by psergio at 10:53 PM on December 15
Rome is that cafe bathroom with a curved wall that proves it is where Caesar was assassinated.
What is a modern person? One reasonable answer is “someone who uses consequentialism and political science.”
http://www.metafilter.com/131144/Ex-Urbe
Paul’d have no way of knowing that it would be left out of orthodox scripture a few centuries later; that’s why he admonishes women in church to cover their hair, because angels hang out around churches.
Therefore Mary must have never died. But where is she? Answer: She was assumed, still living, into heaven. And the Assumption is the other time the Pope has asserted infallibility.
http://www.metafilter.com/131937/The-Bible-as-fanwank-and-flamewars
Flynn, in his state of filmstar ennui, was quick to exploit this deficiency of barbary gut function. Gathering a pen of pretty mallard, he would throw in a lump of fat on a string. In a blink, duck one gobbles it up. Here's the science part. Nature soon takes its course and the deposit in question is hanging, on its string, out of the unfortunate bird's puckered anus. Can it be long before another victim takes the bait? No sir.
Cato on Socrates (from "In Our Time"): "truculent prattler"
The blacks Rembrandt used were “almost always provided by bone or ivory black, prepared, as the name suggests, from animal bones or waste ivory by charring in a closed crucible.”
In this shoreline museum of carnage there were abandoned rolls of barbed wire and smashed bulldozers and big stacks of thrown-away lifebelts and piles of shells still waiting to be moved.
Always there are dogs in every invasion. There is a dog still on the beach today, still pitifully looking for his masters.
We were reading Montaigne, and one line—as soon as I read it—jumped out at me.
"I write to compose myself."
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