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To name something is to take control of it. It could be argued that the Old Testament story of Genesis was less a matter of creation than of naming, of God taking control of chaos.
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There is a psychological accuracy in this insistence that a proper life cannot be lived without pilgrimage, a journey, a great excursion and abandoning of towns, village, hearth. Only in this way is the unsuspected majesty of the world revealed.
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American diplomacy. It's like watching somebody trying to do joinery with a chainsaw.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
James Hamilton-Paterson
Born:
November 6, 1941
(age 83)
Bio:
James Hamilton-Paterson is a poet and novelist.
Known for:
Cooking with Fernet Branca (2004)
America's Boy (1998)
Amazing Disgrace (2006)
Playing with Water (1987)
Seven-tenths (1992)
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