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how is it that such an occurrence can occur?

how is it that such an occurrence can occur?

so there it was: Emerson filled the remaining $15.06 needed on top of the cheap plastic pretend play doctor kit... how is it possible?

Thucydides, Book 4

Thucydides, Book 4

a petition to preserve Spartan dignity in misfortune takes us back to Solon's warning

history's first (and grandest) funeral oration

history's first (and grandest) funeral oration

an answer, perhaps the answer, to "what we fight for?", "what we die for?" and, most importantly "what we live for?"

dying a good death and reading antifragile

dying a good death and reading antifragile

against my (acquired) skepticism of anything published in the last 50 years (exceptions: Kazuo Ishiguro's novels, The Selfish Gene), I picked up Nassim N. Taleb's Antifragile.

the day I finished The Rambler

the day I finished The Rambler

in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.

the victim card on Christmas Eve

the victim card on Christmas Eve

for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...

how we value the things we value

how we value the things we value

the assignment of prices by the invisible hand of the market reveals how we value certain things in relation to other things. This unveiling is quite amusing some times, harrowing in other occasions.

the misery of sovereign power

the misery of sovereign power

a sword is perpetually suspended over our head. We dread our very guards, we distrust our companions.

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