Saturday, 30 December 2006
Thursday, 28 December 2006
“It is recorded that Venizelos, in reading in Fisher’s History of Europe that the Greek invasion of
- E.H. Carr, The 20 Years’ Crisis 1919-1939
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Labels: E.H. Carr, Europe, history, the founding fathers, turbulent and unscrupulous fanatics, Venizelos, Wat Tyler
Wednesday, 27 December 2006
“If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, thought, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness.”
- William Gibson, from ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ in Burning Chrome [1986]
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Labels: Burning Chrome, crude, Johnny Mnemonic, technical, William Gibson