Conscience is the bite of things known together

Old Norse koddi (cushion, testicle)

The imprecision of their goals means that these artists rarely feel they have succeeded

“very real”

i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, 
but less interesting than looking. — Goethe

zagagoolinka or zagagulinka

SALTER It was an impulse I had from the beginning. I didn’t know what made me write at the beginning, but later I understood. It’s simple: the one who writes it keeps it. I suppose I felt that, though I wouldn’t have been able to say it.

INTERVIEWER How do you feel about those first two books now?

SALTER Youth.

the targets of his anger included the National Geographic magazine (for rewriting his prose), his Viennese nephew, Harvard University, women, the State Department, the Kuomintang, Reds, red tape, missionaries, Holy Rollers, Chinese bandits and bankrupt Western civilization.

Firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

“This shouldn’t be a problem”

Extremism in the pursuit of _____ is no vice. Expound.

ridiculously old Paiute lady

proud thrilled happy