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Category Archives: Quotation
Good Advice (a few lines from my WIP)
“A sedan.” Hop nodded again. “She does not touch the ground. And she has others with her, and they look harmless.” “Call no man harmless until he is dead,” Bill said. “My education ended early, but I believe I remember … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Attila the Hun, Baen, Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter
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A New World Obsession
I’m neck-deep in the WITCHY EYE setting and stories, and wanted to share this quote from the book (it’s in the POV of Obadiah Dogsbody, rough English factotum to a Yankee wizard-priest): The Tarock was a New World obsession, something … Continue reading
Great Fabrications
And I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and copy the words of truth, and pervert many and lie and invent great fabrications, and write books in their own names. 1 Enoch 104:10
Symbolic Transgressions
[Sabbatai Sevi’s] transgressions, which formed so characteristic a part of his behavior, did not become a “normal” pattern. Their significance was purely symbolic. They were indicative of some special, exalted condition of the soul. —Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, Gershom … Continue reading
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Tagged Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi, Shamanism, Taboos, Witchy Eye, Yoga
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The Queer and the Strange
“But the queer and the strange, the unrestrained, the grotesque is not only interesting: it is valuable. It is not always necessary to purge it out altogether in order to attain to the Sublime. You can have your gargoyles on … Continue reading
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Tagged Gargoyles, Greek Temples, Grotesque, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kalevala
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To Coincide with a Full Moon
“Ordinary people were much more aware of the heavenly bodies than they are today. It is artificial lighting, in street and house, which has made us less conscious of their endless mutations. Few dwellers in large cities now know what … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
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The Game of Science
“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.” — Karl Popper, … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl R. Popper, Philosophy, Science, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Those Depressing Monologues
“Nevertheless there are still some who do believe that philosophy can pose genuine problems about things, and who therefore still hope to get these problems discussed, and to have done with those depressing monologues which now pass for philosophical discussions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl Popper, Philosophy, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Badass Russians
“Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.” — Earl Harbinger
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Tagged Earl Harbinger, Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha, Monster Hunter International
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Greene Cheese
“He that can be persuaded that these things are true, or wrought indeed according to the assertion of couseners, or according to the supposition of witchmongers & papists, may soone be brought to beleeve that the moone is made of … Continue reading
