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“Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. ”
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“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever."
The Joker”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
The Joker”
― Batman: The Killing Joke
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Avinash’s 2025 Year in Books
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