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Reza Negarestani
“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“The rating agencies were not exceedingly competent”
Timothy Geithner, STRESS TEST

Anne Tyler
“I always say that the way you write a novel is for the first 83 drafts you pretend that nobody is ever, ever going to read it.”
Anne Tyler

Cathy O'Neil
“At the federal level, this problem could be greatly alleviated by abolishing the Electoral College system. It's the winner-take-all mathematics from state to state that delivers so much power to a relative handful of voters. It's as if in politics, as in economics, we have a privileged 1 percent. And the money from the financial 1 percent underwrites the microtargeting to secure the votes of the political 1 percent. Without the Electoral College, by contrast, every vote would be worth exactly the same. That would be a step toward democracy.”
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Julian Fellowes
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
Julian Fellowes

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