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My least favorite rock-show cliché is (and forever will be) the fake encore—that is when the band leaves the stage and pretends that the show is over, and then comes back out to play a few more songs, supposedly because the audience did a
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“Complain about your crumbling infrastructure and overzealous Homeland Security all you like, but as least you have a system that theoretically provides both, which is a damn sight better for national morale than knowing you don’t, and that at any moment some Aramis-drenched Visigoth could climb in the window of your bedroom, unzip your torso like a garment bag and eat out your liver with a crab fork.”
― Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny
― Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny
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“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
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“The rough-and-ready intellectual consensus of the mid-Twentieth Century is being pushed out by a New Superstition whose victims can find testimony on the Internet for anything they choose to believe. The only cure for it is reading books, and lots of them.”
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
― Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
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“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
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“Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, "the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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-- because the curly brackets say it all. Welcome to the #code4lib book club. We're loosely affiliated librarians [usually, but not always] that work ...more
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For all those planning to read Infinite Jest this summer starting June 21. Support, encouragement and gentle pushes welcome.
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