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January 28, 2011
The TUC and the Last Resort
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "No-one is talking about a general strike, but of course these attacks on our members could well give rise to industrial action around specific disputes. Today's meeting showed a clear determination for unions to work together on industrial issues including, as a last resort, industrial action when members support [...]
January 16, 2011
January 12, 2011
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Ezra Pound
The tea-rose, tea-gown, etc. Supplants the mousseline of Cos, The pianola "replaces" Sappho's barbitos. Christ follows Dionysus, Phallic and ambrosial Made way for macerations; Caliban casts out Ariel.
January 3, 2011
Qohelet Raba
כל מי שנעשה רחמן במקום אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמ
December 22, 2010
William Vollmann
But what if, as in our case, it is winter, so that the sun has gone away and the grass lies deep beneath the ice?
Ezra Pound
Nietzsche has done no harm in France because France has understood that thought can exist apart from action… so Diomedes in De Gourmont's story is able to think things which translation into action would spoil.
Danielle Evans
The fuck you think she's running so fast, anyway? Someone ought to tell her there's nowhere to go.
December 20, 2010
Rashi
A man of flesh and blood, who cannot judge his times and his moments, must add some time from the week to Shabbos. G-d, who can judge His times and His moments, entered a hairsbreadth into Shabbos, and it appeared as if He completed the work on that day. Another explanation: What was the world [...]
December 19, 2010
Galen
The fact that, after the loss of the totality of my pharmaceutical remedies, the totality of my books, as well as these recipes of reputable remedies, as well as the various editions I wrote on them, in addition to so many other works, each one of which exhibits that love of work that was mine [...]
