"Bayle is suggesting that any merely truthful account of mankind is liable to take on the appearance of a slander simply because the usual run of mankind is more likely to be ignoble than noble, and that the truth itself is therefore more than likely to take on the aspect of a calumny."
- Hayden White, Metahistory
A poetry of quietude
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"SMILE! You are on voice and video cameras!" reads a new sign at the ticket
shack outside the Temple. I look in on the woman we used to talk to as she
fed...
14 hours ago

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