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another dreary apparatus

Atoms are the basis for all of our stories.

Godfrey Daniel, Inspecting the Time Domain.

looking askance at

“I have become aware of the fact that I think,” whispered Adrian. “Therefore, I am.”

Ford Blasey, The Perplexity of the Two Green Doors.

pillaging the ancients

“Incoherence is the goal, sir.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

mediocrity and vapidity

“Did you try to say mew or meow to it? Sometimes that works.”

Otto Klegg, The Ellipse of Uncertainty.

the poetical trade

whirled without end

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

back of bush

November 12, 2015. Possibly today’s most ludicrous word: “crafted”. Just plain funny.

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

candle wax moon

Theory: a kind of fantasy, or delusion.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

choose your pills

…Mr. Browning then began to wonder whether he had proved rather too much by his fine argument. And this, quite naturally, set him to thinking further upon the matter.

Trevor Walpole, The Imperfect Stranger. (1784)

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The numbers to which the simulation converges are mere artifacts that stem from the model’s assumptions.

Addison West, The Ontology of Destruction.

time and money

We want sex to be profound.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.