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A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine.
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― Unspecialist
― Unspecialist
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It’s not a crime to wish for other worlds. You’ll get taxed for it but they can’t throw you in jail for creating your own private world…yet. Dramatics are fun, an indulgence. ‘You can’t go backward,’ ‘You can’t live in the past,’ they tell you. Why not? ‘You’ve got to put all that behind you and move on to other things,’ they say. Bullshit! These are all expressions of modern disposability. It’s a mediocritizing technique—trying to get rid of what I call ‘past orthodoxies.’ It’s our past that ma
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― The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey
― The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey
Discussion of horror fiction from the 70's, 80's, and 90's - or really just any good pulp horror…more
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a group dedicated to the decade nobody wanted to end.
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Prepare thine ass fair traveler... for you are about to party up for the literary adventure of …more
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This is set in '63, so Beatniks aren't as popular, some of the '50s is still lingering, and Rock…more
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