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How Epigram Became English.

"The Devil chooses to deceive some people in the following way. He will marvellously inflame their brains with the desire to uphold God's law and destroy sin in everyone else."

-- 'The Cloud of Unknowing', unknown author, c.1400's via @jayhumlepoet.bsky.social

"Even in a piece of journalism reporting on the damage and destruction, talking about efficiency as the goal legitimizes the motives and muddles the impact."

redwhiteandblueland

enabled a wild thunder
a twinned halberd duel

then a durable dwindle

"...we all sat around raving about how much better it was than the old world, how rich and robust and almost exactly like real life it tasted, how excited we all were to make the switch..."