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Outlaw is 50% done with The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Volume I (1/2)
"`They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,’ he remarked with a smile. ‘It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.’"
Aug 21, 2018 06:26PM Add a comment
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Volume I (1/2)

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Outlaw is finished with Brave New World Revisited
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, & yet not free- to be under no physical constraint & yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel & act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel & act."
Jun 14, 2014 05:05AM Add a comment
Brave New World Revisited

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Outlaw is finished with Brave New World Revisited
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, & yet not free- to be under no physical constraint & yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel & act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel & act."
Jun 14, 2014 05:05AM Add a comment
Brave New World Revisited

Outlaw
Outlaw is 75% done with Brave New World Revisited
"But how, it may be asked, will the dictator get his subjects to take the pills that will make them think, feel & behave in the ways he finds desirable? […] Today alcohol & tobacco are available, & people spend considerably more on these very unsatisfactory euphorics, pseudo-stimulants & sedatives than they are ready to spend on the education of their children."
Jun 12, 2014 07:37PM Add a comment
Brave New World Revisited

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Outlaw is 50% done with Brave New World Revisited
"Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident.

Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or feel doubt."
May 31, 2014 09:08PM Add a comment
Brave New World Revisited

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Outlaw is 25% done with Brave New World Revisited
"The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. `Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.'"
May 29, 2014 08:28PM Add a comment
Brave New World Revisited

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Outlaw is reading Brave New World
"Ai yaa tákwa! Háni! Sons éso tse-ná!
May 26, 2014 05:34AM Add a comment
Brave New World

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