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Jean-Baptiste stopped to think, which probably did him no good, and much harm.
“You should not joust if you are afraid to be punched out of the saddle, girl-child.”
nothing was really different—which taught Daniel that the world was full of powerful men but as long as they played the same roles, they were as interchangeable as second-rate players speaking the same lines in the same theatre on different nights.
“…that the city is, in some sense, the result of the sum total of the perceptions of it by all of its constituents.”
Leibniz is saying that such a man’s uniqueness is rooted in his ability to perceive the rest of the universe with unusual clarity—to distinguish one thing from another more effectively than ordinary souls.”
In a sort of recursive fugue of dependent clauses
