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“A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to...”
– Roger Ebert
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Chris Rock's Top 25 Hip Hop Albums →
“For my money, Liquid Swords is the best Wu-Tang Clan album. It’s like the Songs in the Key of Life of rap.”
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Socialist Film Review →
Modernist minotaurs →
“Not only did the Minoan past provide inspiration to the modern movement, it was itself a modernist structure, enfolding past and present into a closed loop of aesthetic self-referentiality.”
Harper's: Plato's World-Soul →
“But if we strip away this Christian gloss, the original Platonic text is perhaps the best evidence to make Plato a Pythagorean.”
The Last Laugh: Flann O'Brien →
“If At Swim-Two-Birds annihilates axiomatic notions of what it means to read and write, The Third Policeman annihilates axiomatic notions of what it means to exist.”
All known amicable numbers →
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