October 2009
23 posts
“Unlike C, Objectivist C does not require the programmer to keep track of memory...”
– Ob C at Uncyclo
“Dreaming of Zion, Awake
Sleeping Awake
Dreaming of Zion, Awake
Can’t...”
– POD
“And a priest who was there with me whispered, ‘It’s Easter....”
– Eliade, the Old Man and the Bureaucrats
Extreme wrist pain inhibits most activities.
“Mr. Volcker scoffs at the reports that he is losing clout. “I did not have...”
– http://www.cnbc.com/id/33413206
“Duke Ling of Wei asked Confucius about military formations. Confucius replied,...”
– Analects 15.1
Truth What is truth? Found then forgotten. Lost then remembered. by the gift of the beggar or the peasant’s shoes?
“The angels all pallid and wan
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the...”
– EA Poe
“And the tears flow on forever
Southward in silent ranks
They flow to the...”
– Heinrich Heine
Watch
Failed trip to the Negev. Research on gladiatorial combat and human sacrifice. Learned from a top 100 Amazon.com reviewer how making one’s profile photo that of a black man deflects criticism. Sallust.
Jerusalem V
This stroll down Rav Kook St, My last. Everyone on this boat is friendly to me, minstrdls and merchants, a pilgrimage. Tarshish in sight; no sign of a storm. She comes. Thunder and flame. I am thrown overboard.
Thomas Tallis | Lamentations of Jeremiah (Summerly, Oxford Camerata)
“With the Templars perished a world”
– Charles Heckethorn
Gounod | Faust (performed Samuel Ramey)
“It is this accursed practice of for ever considering only what seems expedient...”
– Coleridge, Table Talk