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May 20, 2013
"He feels about the ritualistic daily Please and Thank You prayers rather like a hitter that’s on a hitting streak and doesn’t change his jock or socks or pre-game routine for as long as he’s on the streak."

— Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace 

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May 20, 2013
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"Note: the inbreath is willed, the outbreath is automatic."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

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May 19, 2013
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"

History is a discipline of aggregate bias. A history may emphasize social events, or cultural or political or economic or scientific or military or agricultural or artistic or philosophical. It may, if it possesses the luxury of voluminousness or the arrogance of superficiality, attempt to place nearly equal emphasis upon each of these aspects,

but there is no proof that a general, inclusive history is any more meaningful than a specialized one.

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— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

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May 18, 2013
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"The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandry man uses his skill to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

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May 18, 2013
"Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selecting breeding."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

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May 11, 2013
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"…all accredited tennis academies have to have a Ph.D.-level counsellor on full-time staff, to screen student athletes for their possibly lethal reactions to ever actually reaching he level they’ve been pointed at for years."

— Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace 

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May 11, 2013
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"The cale kabal’s promise of ‘empowerment,’ the campaign argued, was still just the invitation to choose which of 504 visual spoon-feedings you’d sit there and open wide for."

— Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace 

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May 10, 2013
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"And they seemed abysmally ignorant of the primitive ethos, how rich, how squirmingly musically rich is the savage mind and how deep."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 10, 2013
"As the German biologist Ernst Haeckel established, no particle of living energy is ever extinguished, no particle is ever created anew…Dinosaurs are still with us in the form of energy. There may be some dinosaur energy in y o u."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 09, 2013
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"As she rested, she thought of many things. She thought of Life and said to herself, “It’s okay. I want more of it.” She thought of Death and said to herself, “If I fall out of this frigging treetop, I’ll soon enough learn its secrets."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 09, 2013
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"The cage is a double degrader. Any bar, whether concrete or intangible, that stands between a living thing and its liberty is a communicable perversity, dangerous to the sanity of everyone concerned."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 09, 2013
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"While suffering is no more glamorous — or even necessary — for animal than for man, and while for the being who is at peace with itself may be of trivial concern, still there is something kind of noble in the struggle for survival. Whether meaningful or meaningless, the game of life is there to be played — and the animal in his animal way seems to “know” it and the cage is an offence to what his inner animal voice tells him is right and true."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 08, 2013
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"As unrefined and basic as an animal’s emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of the crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 08, 2013
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"To simply “say” that a desire is immoral — or, resorting to even flimsier abstraction, to deem the fulfillment of a desire illegal — does not eliminate the desire. It does not eliminate anything except straightforwardness. It creates, in addition to a climate of deception, an underworld into which men “descend” in order to partake of Code B services not permitted under the provisions of Code A. Society hires armed goons to force itself to conform to Code A, but a greater sum of money is spent each year in the surreptitious enjoyment of the services provided by Code B."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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May 08, 2013
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"In the queerest of paradoxical metamorphoses, honest desires change into taboos."

— Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins 

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