David Reader 📚🐳
@ThepaleUsher
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Native Californian. Constant reader, occasional writer, former teacher. Quotes are mostly from what I’m reading. #MelvilleMonday
Near San Diego CA
Joined October 2013
Trying to imagine the future:. “And that’s, what, a thousand years? What comes after that? . Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.”. Robin Sloan
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RT @RickBarry44: #Rabelais2025.The Third Book of Pantagruel, C43.How Pantagruel absolves Bridoye over judgements made by the lottery of dic….
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“Why not let this one and only error of his be washed out, effaced, and annihilated in the immense sea of the equitable decisions he has handed down in the past. It is as though it were to throw one drop of salt water into the river Loire :”.#Rabelais2025 .3rd Bk C43.
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RT @LucieLectorix: „… Je trouverais dans mes royaumes assez de lieux et d'états pour l'employer et qu'il me serve. Pour cela, je supplierai….
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RT @xhosa20867809: @ThepaleUsher "If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere." . – Vincent van Gogh.
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RT @dennistmc: “To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, t….
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Devlin believed himself to be a virtuous man, and his self-conception remained, in the face of all contradiction, impregnable. Whenever he behaved badly, or questionably, he simply jettisoned the memory, and turned his mind to something else. Eleanor Catton / The Luminaries.
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“The true meaning of the word ‘lawsuit’ is something that suits the lawyer; legal procedure means something ceded or yielded ‘pro,’ to the benefit of, the judge.”.#Rabelais2025 .3rd Bk C42.How.Lawsuits .are Spawned.and how.they.Attain Full Growth.
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RT @RickBarry44: #Rabelais2025.The Third Book of Pantagruel, C42.How lawsuits are born and how they grow to perfection. 'A lawsuit when it….
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—mais mon ami, demanda Trinquamelle, comment procédez-vous dans une action criminelle, quand la partie coupable est prise en flagrant délit. —Comme vous autres messieurs, répondit Bridoye, je demande au demandeur de dormir bien fort au début du procès et je le laisse dormir.
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3.221.Objects can only be named. Signs are their representatives. I can only speak about them: I cannot put them into words. Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are. Wittgenstein / Tractatus.
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RT @LucieLectorix: 2.021 Die Gegenstände bilden die Substanz der Welt. Darum können sie nicht zusammengesetzt sein. 3.22 Der Name vertr….
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