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Ryne Danielson
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“Along with tableity (the condition of being a table) and paneity (the state of being bread), cellarhood is a wonderful example of the spectacular ways English has of describing things that no ever thinks it necessary to describe.”
― Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
― Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties,” wrote John Adams in 1780. “This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.”
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“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“In 2013 a fifth of Ferguson’s general revenues—some $2.6m, in a city of 21,000 people—were derived from fines and asset confiscation. That is equivalent to $124 a year for every man, woman and child in the city. Paying fines, even for minor traffic offences, can involve queuing for hours. Those who miss court dates can be jailed until they pay, accumulating more fines along the way. Slowly but surely, the justice system has become an elaborate mechanism for criminalising poverty.”
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Ryne’s 2025 Year in Books
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