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"amazing to me that Sara Stevenson could have understood the hubris of imperial speculators so insightfully. Substitute Iraq for Mexico and 1864 for 2002 and there you have it. The ignorance wrought by arrogance and greed is palpable; especially that of Confederates foreseeing their defeat by the Union, but worse their wilful blindness to lessons quite apparent to Stevenson in whose parents' home they gathered." — Sep 09, 2019 06:40AM
"amazing to me that Sara Stevenson could have understood the hubris of imperial speculators so insightfully. Substitute Iraq for Mexico and 1864 for 2002 and there you have it. The ignorance wrought by arrogance and greed is palpable; especially that of Confederates foreseeing their defeat by the Union, but worse their wilful blindness to lessons quite apparent to Stevenson in whose parents' home they gathered." — Sep 09, 2019 06:40AM
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The words Alix Shulman strings across a page voice a suspension of judgment by a mind, conditioned like mine, to ignore and dismiss wonders of the world outside it. The book, taken as a whole, is very funny. I can't remember laughing so happily uncon
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“Samuel Butler suggests that machines will be the real rulers in the coming ages, that man will be preserved only to feed and care for the machines”
― The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
― The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
“¿Pues qué os pudiera contar, señora, de los secretos naturales que he descubierto estando guisando? Ver que un huevo se une y fríe en la manteca o aceite y, por el contrario, se despedaza en el almíbar; ver que para que el azúcar se conserve fluida basta echarle una muy mínima parte de agua en que haya estado membrillo u otra fruta agria; ver que la yema y clara de un mismo huevo son tan contrarias, que en los unos que sirven para el azúcar, sirve cada una de por sí y juntos no. Por no cansarnos de tales frialdades, que sólo refiero para daros entera noticia de mi natural y creo que os causará risa, pero, señora, ¿qué podemos saber las mujeres sino filosofías de cocina? Bien dijo Lupercio Leonardo, que bien se puede filosofar y aderezar la cena. Y yo suelo decir viendo estas cosillas: Si Aristóteles hubiera guisado, mucho más hubiera escrito.”
― Carta atenagórica y Respuesta a sor Filotea
― Carta atenagórica y Respuesta a sor Filotea
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