What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shift...
All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.
There ain't no journey what don't change you some.
London is a language. I guess all places are.
Mental maps. Maps with edges. And for Auden, for so many of us, it's the edges of the maps that fascinate...
Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.
Human beings are walking bundles of cravings. Cravings for food, water, shelter, warmth; sex and companionship; status, a tribe to belong to; kicks, control, purpose; and so on, all the way down toe c...
The Future, says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. Coming soon, to a Present near you.
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays;...
Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what ‘is’ for what ‘sho...
Me, want to bloody kick this world in the bloody over and over till it bloody that is ten bloody times more bloody important than being .
Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.
So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
Aroma of fresh bread led me to a bakery where a deformed woman with no nose sold me a dozen crescent-moon pastries. Only wanted one, but thought she had enough problems.
Beauty is immune to definition.
Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land & its riches? Wolves don’t sit in their caves, concocting crapulous theories of race to justi...
Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’...
A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
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