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What the Marxist hates is the soul.  He takes aim at the soul.  That is the enemy.

Alice Trinculo, Speaking to Sparrows.

Q:  However do we find out what “literature” is?

A:  We ask someone who knows.

Charles Pfanning,  Mild Interrogations.

“But the diagram doesn’t reveal,” said Devon.  “It deceives.”

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

The secular West is already polygamous.  We just don’t make the “relationships” official.

Christopher Jayne,  A Critique of Sincerity.

What purpose is served when the liar takes an oath?

Winston Joyce, Rational Agent Theory.

“If only I could know a slightly different form of unhappiness,” whispered Edna.  “Then things would be better—I’m sure of it.”

Burdyce Goode, Wonderful With Dogs.

…and Tiberius, clubbed on the head with a footstool, fell dead.

Roone Giddings, Dirty Old Coins.

“Yes, Reggie, but you know as well as I do that biology does not apply to human beings.”

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

The universe contains not a single intellectual abstraction.  Not a single concept.  Only humans carry those.

Adrian Childe, Greater Patterns in Bach.

With agriculture came society.  And with that came the invention of “society”—the concept.  That is: Here is something we can improve.

Hill Boothby, The Dazzling Realm of Almost.