A mighty emperor once sought the Mulla's help. He told the Mulla: 'the great kings and conquerors of the past carried great titles, and often their titles celebrated divine favors. In the past, there were kings that were God-anointed, God-chosen, God-like, and even God-descended.' The mighty emperor asked the Mulla to come up with an honorific ( Read more... )

Everything to the last detail is composed of elements we have already experienced a thousand and a thousand times. Even those once-in-a-lifetime things -- overturning a canoe in white water or being shot at, pursuing a squirrel through the attic, sexual excess -- are merely unusual combinations of what has been repeatedly around.

Pictures from Hume.


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I've taken to holding my sunglasses in my fist like they're brass-knuckles.

I'll fight for everyone to feel as good as I do right now.

We drove to Jacksonville to see dashboard. Later we went to the beach and played Frisbee in the dark.

I've still got the crick in my neck from piling in the back seat of a civic with eight other people.

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60 degrees in the tropical summer walking down northsouth with an umbrella in one hand and a single red rose in the other

lab safety googles on my head

sex in the lounge tonight, you've got a half hour left- it's been good- there's probly still food left (im taking a break to study latin now, but im going back in a few minutes)

this morning, the steam from underneath the street was blowing in the opposite direction.

Baby, I hope today you feel how cool it is outside.

I saw the greatest fight I've ever seen in my entire life today.

Bike vs. Bloodmobile

Current score: Bloodmobile:1, Bike:0

Maureen closed her eyes. "Listen to me, Earl. Life goes by so darn fast, every wasted moment is a crime." One blue eye opened and fixed on him. "And every crime is a wasted moment."

Carl Hiaasen makes me love Florida.

There are a lot of things I've been thinking about; but let's start with a rush follow up ( Read more... )

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