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"But the unintelligent forfeit their claim to compassion when they begin to indulge in self-complacent airs, and to call themselves sane critics, meaning that they are mechanics. And when, relying upon their numbers, they pass from self-complacency to insolence, and reprove their betters for using the brains which God has not denied them, they dry up the fount of pity."

"Thought runs as though across a bridge that collapses behind it." --d'Annunzio, Notturno, tr Sartarelli (1921; 2011)

"On the Teaching Philosophy fb group, someone offered their students an amnesty if they admitted to using ChatGPT in their assignments, and 23/25 students replied."

"maddened by shivelights"

tying mask i frisk with
brunt of the weird hunt-play
salted-away Piltdown
burgers fuel for lurgy
Gollumwards this shell game
& none kens its gun-airt

palindromic namesake
O daft fado bodkin
shoggothwards the dord's shards
pant vantablack coffee

Secret Sauce.