Sublime

Arguably, other individuals might also stand in as incarnations of this process. William E. Fairbairn, discussed in chapter 6, had more than his share of high adventure abroad and certainly molded a great many individual agents. At the doctrinal and organizational level, however, it becomes harder to assess his influence.

Once a drug is discovered, it often goes through a process of dilution before a general consensus is reached on the most desirable level of effect.

“My old friend,” Albert said. “The one I wake up every morning thinking about.” “How do you know?” “Same way I know everything. CNN.” “Harvey said he was dead.” “Yes, well, he looked pretty healthy to me. Before he got shot anyway.” “Someone shot him?” “A little gangster, in L.A. somewhere.” “You positive?” “There isn’t a doubt in my mind.” “Fuckin

Mr Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests exce

It is the façade that triggers the problem.

Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed – all he’s got to do is thump on the drum, and there’s his response.

Browne makes the case that physical branding played the same function for enslavers, allowing them to track racialized bodies via a permanent, unchangeable marker:

When someone finally got around to asking Sun Ra if he was part of the underground, he declared that he was in the sub-underground.