Pretension is a debt, a loan taken against future learning. Sometimes the debtor pays it off; more often he becomes a bankrupt.
Oct 192023
Oct 182023
The worst thing about small errors is the way they retard one’s progress toward large ones.
Oct 172023
Every despotic power, especially a majority, tends to become absolute.
Oct 162023
The oppressor adds insult to injury when he imagines himself oppressed.
Oct 132023
It is now possible to be innocent of mathematics, science, history, logic, and languages, and unblushingly refer to oneself as educated.
Oct 122023
Men who knew something about everything were deposed by men who knew everything about something, who were succeeded, in their turn, by men who know nothing about anything.
Oct 112023
The Four Plots
Dragged back in
Stranger in town
Road trip
I want what he’s having
Oct 102023
Easy tasks are easier than they look, and hard ones are much, much harder.
Oct 092023
We say life imitates art because art is how we see life.
Oct 062023
First we pretend, then we demand that others pretend, and finally we punish them for not pretending.