The Thread Out is another Labyrinth. –sayings of Asmodeus

“There is no law saying that the burlesque of a thing may not appear before the thing itself.” --R A Lafferty

In the end, it becomes a question of whether people who are intolerant will continue to count more than their actual numbers in a putative democracy. So far, the answer is Yes. The trouble is, people too easily see social decay as a problem of excessive autonomy, rather than of deficient reciprocity. This gives the fascists a loophole a mile wide...

Every thought is a palindromic prime.

Is there any point in an invention which would show you the sufferings of people on other planets, without giving you the power to halt it?

I don’t suffer for Art, but I suffer for Chess.

Writings on anarchism are like art criticism for an artform no one yet has practiced.

Nothingness, the ultimate McGuffin.

Reincarnation works for me only as a source of jokes. I told a friend that Crowley’d come back as Leo Buscaglia. She said, “That’s sick!”

‘ “If one man has an idea, that just means that many others will have the same idea at the same time. Anyone who doesn’t see that doesn’t know what an idea is. Thoughts are contagious, even if they are not expressed; perhaps most contagious when they are not expressed.” ‘ --Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face (1916; tr Mike Mitchell 1992)

‘How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!’ --Nietzsche

Father knows best. (via This Modern World weblog)