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"This is kind of depressing." Dec 11, 2019 10:24AM

 
Book cover for Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The ultimate authority of the modern state has always rested in extremis on its monopoly of violence and its willingness to deploy force if necessary.
Patrick Brown
not so much the US. at least the monopoly on violence part.
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I'm reading "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" right now and it echoes this sentiment. While there are many mechanisms we use to gain influence and accumulate resources, force has historically been t…
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Wallace Stevens
“The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
Wallace Stevens

Vladimir Nabokov
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
Vladimir Nabokov

Christopher Hitchens
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
Christopher Hitchens

Charlotte Brontë
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Margaret Atwood
“War is what happens when language fails.”
Margaret Atwood

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