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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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11.11.03

pity is like rust to a cruel social machine

"we were put to work carrying corpses from Air-Raid shelters; women, children, old men; dead from concussion, fire or suffocation. Civilians cursed us and threw rocks as we carried bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city."

Ray Boomhower/Indiana Historical Society

link ::: wood s lot :::

Kurt Vonnegut begins his long pilgrimage to Tralfamadore, in Dresden, 1945.

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