Such as only meddle with things subject to the conduct of human capacity, are excusable in doing the best they can: but those other fellows that come to delude us with assurances of an extraordinary faculty, beyond our understanding, ought they not to be punished, when they do not make good the effect of their promise, and for the temerity of their imposture?
Michel de Montaigne
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
For Kevin
Death wipes everything away
Except for the living.
We are each a world.
And all there will ever be.
Caught in the ether.
Except for the living.
We are each a world.
And all there will ever be.
Caught in the ether.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
We're an information economy.... it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified...
William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic
William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic
Saturday, February 17, 2018
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