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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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10.6.06

In the very simple mind of the very large thing inside the media corral ruminating the dribbled-into-its-food-information about bad-things-in-the-world, the arrest of "terrorists" in Canada leads directly to the death of al-Zarqawi and that line becomes a road that runs right over the dusty bodies of the executed children of Haditha.
There's a rhythm to it.
Had to arrest them, had to kill them - to get him.
Winning the war against evil.

Unfortunate incidents had occurred, mistaken ideas had been current. It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood.
Too many farmers had assumed, without due enquiry, that on such a farm a spirit of licence and indiscipline would prevail. They had been nervous about the effects upon their own animals, or even upon their human employees. But all such doubts were now dispelled.

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