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LaszloWalrus

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  1. Pat Corvini of the Ayn Rand Institute recently released a lecture series that resolves Zeno's paradoxes (especially the Achilles/tortoise one) and uses Ayn Rand's theory of concepts as a general principle to deal with all paradoxes.
  2. I read Old School and, surprisingly, I found something even more offensive than the mockery of Ayn Rand (as bad as that was); Wolfe gives her a "humorous" line regarding how her family members were killed by Lenin. This is like making light of the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide. Disgusting.
  3. I read Don Quixote (in the original Spanish) for a literature class. I hated the novel. I admit it is very well written, but Cervantes's point for writing the novel was to show that the pursuit of any kind of value is foolish and that the achievement of values is impossible (Don Quixote's insanity is a metaphor for the general pursuit of values). Also, I've heard both Don Quixote and War and Peace claimed as the greatest novel.
  4. Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Love and Sleep": Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head, Smooth-skinned and dark, with bare throat made to bite, Too wan for blushing and too warm for white, But perfect-coloured without white or red. And her lips opened amorously, and said-- I wist not what, saving one word--Delight. And all her face was honey to my mouth, And all her body pasture to mine eyes; The long lithe arms and hotter hands than fire, The quivering flanks, hair smelling of the south, The bright light feet, the splendid supple thighs And glittering eyelids of my soul's desire.
  5. "Foie" is pronounced like "aw" with an "fw" sound in front. "Gras" is pronounced "graw." I tend to like goose liver (as opposed to duck liver) varities. I can't recommend a particular brand, but the fattier ones are generally better. Also, I would recommend eating it plain (i.e. not with any trimmings).
  6. Foie gras is one of my favorite foods.
  7. For the "greatest" leader, I'd have to vote for Genghis Kahn; he conquered more land than Alexander, Napoleon, and Hitler combined and founded an empire than endured for a long time. For the most influential leader, I'd vote for Muhammad; he started the Islamic Empire. My favorite, however, is George Washington.
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