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"Instead of exhibiting an unfolding sequence of delimited events that function in the service of a progressive ‘universal history’, the planet is the stage on which the spectacle of human incoherence is playing out."

"...for Trump, Schama chose Dogberry, the clownish sheriff with the incompetent posse, in 'Much Ado About Nothing,' albeit a Dogberry with a darker heart." --Adam Gopnik via

"I had to keep telling the story until I could find my way out of it, which I eventually did."

"the sound
of cicada shrill
piercing the stones"

--Bashō via @bashosociety

"Since the introduction a few years earlier of ultrasonic music, the human voice indeed, audible music of any type—had gone completely out of fashion." (via)