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I started reading The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe. Tom Send a noteboard - 02/04/2015 03:30:22 PM

I'm enjoying it. It reminds me of the way that people used to write popular magazines, back in the days when they chain-smoked while pounding out stories on a typewriter. Rolling Stone in the 1970s, Hunter S. Thompson, that sort of thing. It wasn't that long ago, but the loss of literary skill is palpable between when Wolfe wrote his book and today. That's sad.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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