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Monthly Archives: March, 2007

Schopenhauer on genius and truth

Amongst my favourite quotes: “The exceptional man is like an archer who can strike a target others cannot, the genius is the one who can strike a target others cannot … Continue reading

7 March, 2007 · 9 Comments

Libby lied (for Cheney), people died

Two links on the significance of the Libby verdict in Washington’s Season of Scandal Sidney Blumenthal: Libby lied, troops died, Guardian, 6 March 2007: The Scooter Libby verdict is inextricably … Continue reading

6 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

March 17 March on the Pentagon

5 March, 2007 · 2 Comments

Fisk on Putting Hatred On A Map

A very good Fisk piece on sectarianism and how the epistemological violence of imposed imperial cartographic division ultimately results in empirical, on the ground, violence. Put more simply, it is … Continue reading

4 March, 2007 · 5 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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