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"First essay in new formatting! "On Presumption", 7/10. I enjoy that the further he gets into this, the more he turns inward (fewer historical examples). This one is about judging yourself accurately. A neat little rhetorical flourish towards the end about how if you think you might be insane, you're clearly not insane. He thinks he has a poor memory and grasps things slowly, but he holds onto them once he does." — May 29, 2026 01:35PM
"First essay in new formatting! "On Presumption", 7/10. I enjoy that the further he gets into this, the more he turns inward (fewer historical examples). This one is about judging yourself accurately. A neat little rhetorical flourish towards the end about how if you think you might be insane, you're clearly not insane. He thinks he has a poor memory and grasps things slowly, but he holds onto them once he does." — May 29, 2026 01:35PM
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
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“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
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