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“We're forgetting each plant's proper naming,
Classifications we've learnt from reading;
We stop recalling the links and logic,
Accounts of the world's internal working,
And I wonder—do you hear strange music?”
― Michael Shindler

tags: classifications, forgetting, logic, naming

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“I am dead to the wild world's lunacy,
And now rest in a tranquil universe!
I live alone in my own holy ecstasy,
Within my rapture—within my Verse!”
― Friedrich Ruckert

tags: lunacy, verse, wild-world

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“To make America’s least employable citizens dependent on the whims of the state, rather than their neighbors, is to clear a path for demagogues.”
― Michael Shindler

tags: america, demagogue, employment

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“Little stirs people to write as much as death’s approach.”
― Michael Shindler

tags: death-s-approach, dying, writing

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“The Tower of Babel is one of those mythological narratives that, in the words of the 4th-century philosopher Sallustius, 'never happened, but always are.' Man in his arrogance always strives against his own nature and circumstances to bring together the different nations of the world and establish an order that can facilitate some lofty ideal and he always fails. Just as Nimrod’s tower fell, so did Alexander’s, Cyrus’s, Attila’s, and Napoleon’s. This sort of geopolitical project—even when buttressed by the best reasons and most noble goals—never succeeds.”
― Michael Shindler

tags: nimrod, tower-of-babel

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