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As I was reading my book last night – namely the novel Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, – I came across a familiar-looking song, sung by the protagonist, Breq, to herself as she ventures off on a daring mission:
This blog is an exercise in vanity.
Vanitas vanitatum!
This is my favourite sentence that starts with ‘and’:
Or else there might be a drug in the laurel that could
have produced such an Apollonian effect. To test this, I have
crushed laurel leaves and smoked quantities of them in a pipe and
felt somewhat sick but no more inspired than usual. And chewed
them as well for over an hour, and very distinctly felt more
and more Jaynesian, alas, than Apollonian.
Whenever I open up and rinse a can of chickpeas, I find myself idly picking one up and with two fingers swiftly slipping off its transparent skin—