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distraction
The deeply personal moment may be lost in modern society, but it is for us to find. Distraction is a universal, atemporal quality; always, there is distraction, and it is always easy to seek out. -
Egypt
I have been told the Egyptian desert is in fact littered with garbage and far from the pictorial waves of sand we so often see on television and postcards.
And I have been told it looks like this:
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greatexpectations
...'With this boy! Why, he is a common labouring-boy!'
I thought I overheard Miss Havisham answer--only it seemed so unlikely--
'Well? You can break his heart.'
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"Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it."
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"What was lacking was not so much conviction, as an ability to translate that conviction into form." - William J. Curtis on the Coventry Cathedral -
in praise of cheap labour <- another bullshit article.
"And as long as you have no realistic alternative to industrialization based on low wages, to oppose it means that you are willing to deny desperately poor people the best chance they have of progress for the sake of what amounts to an aesthetic standard--that is, the fact that you don't like the idea of workers being paid a pittance to supply rich ( Read more... ) -
The Economist
"Suppose that the “fair traders” succeed in eradicating international differences in production costs, so that a given product cost precisely the same to make in different countries. In that case, no country would have a comparative advantage, and hence there would be no trade. Rich-country workers, who are also consumers, would lose ( Read more... ) -
Richard on the new 'training skills' programs via the ministry of edu of ont
"how are these skills transferable, not for just a job, but for life?"
they aren't!
we're screwed. -
Women and Architecture
Whoever, if anyone, reads this entry: when I speak of women and architecture, I do not speak of femininity or objectification, or the natural rights of women everywhere. Nor am I a feminist, as I do not believe in segregating my beliefs to satisfy some 'universal', historical misdemeanor of mankind. But let it also stand that: I do not deny sexism ( Read more... )
