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“All of which is to say, the way we make sense of things is rarely to engage the things. We don’t confront the things before us as something different; we confront them as something we already know, as if everything fits into pre-ordained buckets of knowledge, as if those buckets weren’t themselves created, as if buckets and categories themselves weren’t buckets or categories that might impede knowing.”
― Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense

“And conceivably there might be onions, as an antiscorbutic.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander

“Uva uvam vivendo varia fit”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“Dismiss the thought,” protested Lindsay from a certain equine altitude, “for it would make us no better than common thieves.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day