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Austin Scott Collins
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Creating Reality
Just because something is “made up,” that doesn't necessarily mean it isn’t also real.
Our entire legal system is invented. Human minds came up with the concept of money. Insurance is an elaborate contrivance. Yet these things offer palpable, tangible, measurable, quantifiable benefits and can, conversely, do great and terrible harm.
It’s easy to take a bong rip and declare, “money isn’t real, man” Read more of this blog post »
Our entire legal system is invented. Human minds came up with the concept of money. Insurance is an elaborate contrivance. Yet these things offer palpable, tangible, measurable, quantifiable benefits and can, conversely, do great and terrible harm.
It’s easy to take a bong rip and declare, “money isn’t real, man” Read more of this blog post »
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Dicing Time for Gladness
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2013
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Crass Casualty (The Victoria da Vinci novels) (Volume 2)
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Hate's Profiting (The Victoria da Vinci novels Book 3)
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“Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?”
― Crass Casualty (The Victoria da Vinci novels)
― Crass Casualty (The Victoria da Vinci novels)
“I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci”
― Dicing Time for Gladness
― Dicing Time for Gladness
“But like Machiavelli tells us, you must use the assets and resources at your disposal. Use them all, and use them to maximum effect.”
― Dicing Time for Gladness
― Dicing Time for Gladness