We now know that life is based on chemistry, and that life’s chemistry is governed by a molecule called DNA.
“(Admittedly, sometimes they were right, as in the gothic events of Christmas 896, when the corpse of Pope Formosus (891–6) was dug up by his enemy and successor Stephen VI and put on trial; but that horrified the Romans, too–Stephen did not survive another year. Normally, Roman violence to losers had its own stately logic.)”
― The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
― The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
“know. A few daring mystics have hinted at a pre-Pleistocene origin for the fragmentary Pnakotic Manuscripts, and have suggested that the devotees of Tsathoggua were as alien to mankind as Tsathoggua itself.”
― At the Mountains of Madness
― At the Mountains of Madness
“I pull her against me, not to make love to her, but just to love her. To hold something good and imperfect and fucked up, and to feel someone holding all of that in return.”
― Beacon 23
― Beacon 23
“In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.”
― Terrorism
― Terrorism
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
― The Lord of the Rings
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
― The Lord of the Rings
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