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"Note to self: interesting toy example given on page 2 to bear in mind, $L = (\dot{x}-\dot{y})^2$." Apr 22, 2014 08:07AM

 
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"So far, just reviewing Justinian's reign, and Belisarius' early campaigns." Nov 21, 2014 09:47AM

 
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"A strange amalgam of the author's journal entries, interspersed with letters, and post-factum commentaries." Dec 18, 2014 09:43AM

 
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Raymond Chandler
“I looked at my watch. Nine fifty-four. Time to go home and get your slippers on and play over a game of chess. Time for a tall cool drink and a long quiet pipe. Time to sit with your feet up and think of nothing. Time to start yawning over your magazine. Time to be a human being, a householder, a man with nothing to do but rest and suck in the night air and rebuild the brain for tomorrow.”
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

Raymond Chandler
“She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella.”
Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

T.E. Lawrence
“The moral freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up in ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.”
T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom

P.G. Wodehouse
“You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning

Raymond Chandler
“I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck. The gin was in my hair and eyebrows, on my chin and under my chin. It was on my shirt. I smelled like dead toads.”
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

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