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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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10.3.07

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Kieran Healey at Crooked Timber:
Via Jim Henley I see there's a challenge from Brian Flemming:
If you are a blogger who was active in March 2003, link to that month's archive and write an entry called 'What I was wrong about in March 2003.'
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I was wrong thinking that eliding capitalization would be that much easier that it would make up for the awkward reading experience and pretentiousness of it. Other than that, and some residual over-excitedness, the month is mostly links and quotes, as now - there's no attempt at actual forecast, but the main theses here now were there then as well.
12.Mar.03:

I keep seeing the little guys, my side, us, the good guys, nice people, sane people - choose a description that works - responding to nonsense like the above 'Biblical' prophecy, and 'de-frenchifying', as though because it's obviously horseshit, it somehow should go away once it's been called horseshit. but just like real horseshit, it doesn't matter what you call it, until somebody comes along with a shovel, it stays right where the horse left it.

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