Old Is The New New

With a library card, a good search engine, and the right kind of mind, one can wreak all kind of mischief on historical “facts.”

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Gilded age memetics, intellectual history as improv jazz, and the secret of the sphinx revealed.

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Tags: lactose intolerance, robots, “belly up!”, GTD.

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As for me, my bed is made. I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing in through the crannies of the world like so many soft rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water. … The bigger the unit you [...]

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Kazuo Ishiguro is the Fonz.

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What is history for?

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