Roger's Randomness

'twasn't me, that bloke (or blokess) over there said it...

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Dissenters ... must detach themselves, must become resolute "heretics". They must detach themselves quietly, without shouting or riots, indeed in silence and secrecy; not alone but in groups, in real "societies" that will create ... a life that is independent and wise. ... a non-rhetorical form of total rejection.

Nicola Chiaromonte, 1968

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Debate ... is a matter of arranging staged encounters between equally noncommittal candidates neatly tailored to fit thirty minutes of prime network time, the object of the exercise being to establish an "image" of competence. If there are interrogators present they have been hand picked and their questions rehearsed.

Theodore Roszak, 1969

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The Bliss of the Scythe - "The longer Levin mowed, the oftener he felt the moments of unconsciousness in which it seemed not his hands that swung the scythe, but the scythe mowing of itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own, and as though by magic, without thinking of it, the work turned out regular and well finished of itself. These were the most blissful moments."

from "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

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"You can't imagine what an effective remedy it is for every sort of foolishness. I want to enrich medicine with a new word: Arbeitskur." Levin telling his brother about his day with the scythe in "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy. (Arbeit = work, movement, performance; Kur = cure)

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