A Well Turned Phrase

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

— Pliny the Younger

“Our age might have a plethora of electronic devices to encode each and every moment, but the portraitist’s eye remained unmatched in its power to capture the essence of the human subject.”

— The Enigma of Garlic: 44 Scotland Street Series (16) by Alexander McCall Smith

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

--Bertrand Russell

“I lived by the motto: ‘C’s-get-degrees.’”

— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black

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“Only man I know who can bench press four times his IQ.””

— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black

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“he speaks an entirely different language. He installed Wi-Fi at my place and the way he talked about how it worked, he may as well have been reciting ancient spells or something.””

— The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black

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Folk and blues musician Anthony Moser skips the careful case against AI and opts for a plain human response: being a hater. "Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total

⁠⁠Roadtripping through the South is an experience that I associate with empty Arizona cans, endless stretches of interstate, Spotify, the occasional Hostess Zinger, and my compulsive noticing and reading-out-loud of every passing billboard. After a couple hundred such noticings of these advertising relics, the thematic frequent fliers become

…the higher ed bubble, wherein students are commonly paying upwards of $90,000/year to learn how to do laundry and read Chaucer.

— Peter Thiel