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Elbow day

Oh, elbow day!

May a bit of bruising

Come my way.

Patrick Malmsey, Manifest Toe. (from Book III)

“No, Sandra, it was all about my new slogan: I assume, therefore I am.”

Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.

Modern physics might even outdo contemporary art as an insular enterprise. It is not about anything.

Rollin Mungo, Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

“But the letter ‘D’, my dear Roberta, is for dayes of Plymouth olde.”

Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.

“One never knows what will happen next, Sergeant. Of course. But don’t I have a right to expect that something will happen?”

Pryce Cummings, Rattle Box.

Science: a sometimes rigorous superficiality.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

“Stop the poetry!” cried Jansen, perhaps a bit too desperately. “Oh, won’t you please help us stop the poetry?”

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

Culture: an apparatus for imposing assertions as true.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Today, science is modeling. If there is something that scientists cannot model—that resists modeling—their solution is to model it anyway.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

Materialism: a scheme in which everything in the world is derived either from a system of some kind or from randomness.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.