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Oh, cousin, look at us!  Are we not loftie?

Thomas Gallowes,  Titus Moans.  (1620)

Alice doesn’t live in one of the wonderful places.  What should she do?

A. Engage in long fits of sobbing.

B. Bravely acknowledge her failure.

C. Stop paying attention.

D. Move immediately to a wonderful place.

Rollo Marquardt,  Dwelling in the Cupcake World.

noise R us

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

The great dread of the “millennial” generation:  that the only culture they know (Internet) might be shallow, pointless, and uninteresting.

Winston Joyce,  Bovine Egalitarianism and Other Essays.

Nigel had lost interest in paying attention.  That’s the way he would have put it.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

Logic is not about being logical.  It is completely intuitive.

Jonathan Arness,  The Blue Rider.

She has been led to think that she should be more important than she apparently is.

Charles Jeffrey Yett,  Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.

“I think she was a novelist.”  To say that someone was a “novelist”—that that is what she had been—is a fairly savage reduction.

Hume Tanner,  Essays Concerning Human Understanding.

Judgment:  one consequence of the attempt to “make no judgments.”

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

It is as follows.  Classical mechanics: narrow.  Theosophical occultism: vast.  And now we comprehend the spatial domain of ideology.

Bronson K. Janda,  Turning Gold Into Lead.