crucible of ennui

Music fathoms the sky.
Charles Baudelaire

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Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.
                                                                               ~Winston Churchill

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“Today, anyone with a laptop and an internet connection has access to a heftier chunk of humanity’s knowledge than the most privileged visitor to the Great Library of Alexandria in the third century BC, or the British Library reading room just a generation ago.”
Johann Hari
from Beware the Internet’s Looming Class Divide

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