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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird’s intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an “author,” there results a very fair and accurate transcript of Continue reading qotd

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DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe Continue reading qotd

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Truth is simple, it has no clothes, no boundaries to define it. But we cannot grasp the immaculately simple. We cannot perceive truth without clothing. So Truth dresses up for us, in a story, in sage advice, in a blueprint of the cosmos. And then, before we can imagine that we have grasped Truth, it Continue reading qotd