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Abaddon’s gate stands gaping wide,
smoke rising black in dark-mode lets
issue forth from endless depths
malign servants prophesied.
To gaze on it we block the sun,
cross threshold with our handheld portal,
Lucifer lets out a chortle
for our troubles just begun.
All-present abyss distributedly
covers the globe with its contents,
indestructible, continually
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gold and dross and poetry
“In love of home, the love of country has its rise” —Dickens
Education, learning, epistemology and for X
Dickens, The curiosity shop
Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace.
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
“I am completely opposed to the spirit of this age, because it promotes the neglect of thought…
Today there is not only a neglect of thought but an actual distrust or depreciation of it. The organized political, social, and religious groups of our time are bent on inducing the individual to take up uncritically ready-made beliefs rather than
Albert Schweitzer
We know the meaning of all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate. And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying ‘These things are.’ It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, ‘Why cannot these things be?’
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
Bearing False Witness, Rodney Stark
because of course he is conscious of his own superiority, as we all are, and very naturally—that he took to scorning everything, and became a genius;
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. From this high audacious duty the moderns are fleeing on every side; and the only excuse for them is, (of course,) that their modern philosophies are so half-baked and hypothetical that they cannot convince themselves enough to convince
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