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Doesn't it make you fell alive
to be reminded how everything is so ephemeral, and fragile? For all we know next we'll hear Harvard or the LDS Church is insolvent from investing in too many complex derivative real estate chemes. Some day, even America will disappear beneath the bone white dunes.
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09-26-2008, 06:51 PM | #2 |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2200544/entry/0/
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"Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12 |
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Did you read the previous entries in the Mongolian series? They were better.
Trust me, if a law professor can write stuff for Slate, the New Yorker, and the Times, and still manage to produce the kind of drivel that Law Reviews require, then he's not a terrible writer. If anything, he's a versatile one.
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You could accomplish the task with your pinky. He's, shall we say, not so coordinated. He managed to trip himself up quite often walking around the front of the classroom while lecturing.
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