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99. prometheus
I hate getting bad news. I hate it more when it’s about someone I have admired for years. Yes, Virginia, Christopher Hitchens is dead. It doesn’t come as a huge shock since we knew it would happen...
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100. singularity
This story begins with a boy, seven or eight years old, crouching outside on a mid-summer day under a clear blue sky. The boy is peering down into a puddle. It had been raining the day before and there...
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103. sucre
Let dreamers dream what worlds they please; Those Edens can’t be found. The sweetest flowers, the fairest trees Are grown in solid ground. We’re neither pure nor wise nor good; We’ll do the best we...
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105. chime
This is a response to an opinion piece by Tom Arcano in the Greensboro News & Record that I just fired off to the editor of the paper. To the editor and to Mr. Arcano, As a fan of all things...
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112. codification
One of the great things about living in a city is the inordinate proximity and access to basically everything. There are a gadzillion restaurants to choose from and sample; opportunities to attend arts...
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116. peroration
peroration, noun—1) A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language; 2) Rhetoric. The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the...
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167. decathect
“Perhaps I have been wrong to keep so much of my mind from you,” said Mr Norrell, knotting his fingers together. “I am almost certain I have been wrong. But I decided long ago that Great Britain’s best...
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181. dilly
This afternoon a friend of mine posted an article from the Guardian about the top five regrets people have as they come to die. As an atheist who doesn’t believe in any kind of afterlife and that each...
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When one is acutely aware of their Otherness, they are also often hyper aware of the boundaries between themselves and other people.
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At 32.5 years old, I’m getting around to correcting a deficiency in my nerd cred. Up until very recently, I had never played Dungeons & Dragons or any tabletop role playing games. Part of this was...
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