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Jay Lee
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Bemused muser.
I'll probably talk a lot about music. Or books.
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Jeez. We live in evil times.
The salient paragraph: "Of the Passions that most frequently are the causes of Crime, one, is Vain-glory, or a foolish over-rating of their own worth; as if difference of worth, were an effect of their wit, or riches, or bloud, or some other naturall quality, not depending on the Will of those that have the Soveraign Authority. From whence proceedeth a Presumption that the punishments ordained by the Lawes, and extended generally to all Subjects, ought not to be inflicted on them, with the same rigour they are inflicted on poore, obscure, and simple men, comprehended under the name of the Vulgar."
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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For yucks I have written up Hobbes' eighteen "laws of nature" and graded our current society on them. 4/18 ~= 20% isn't bad, right?
The text lays out Hobbes' laws of nature, as described in the first part of Leviathan. The first, third, thirteen and fourteenth are not checked; the rest, are. Sadly, it is too much text to convey under the 2000 character limit. My apologies.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Wonderful example of me getting ahead of myself before the current book is (self-)published.
As is apparent, it's a period piece.
A Google spreadsheet titled "Reading list to next book" (meaning, books to read for the next book to write). There are four columns: Title, Author, Description, Own, Read. 1. Paradiso, Jose Lezama Lima, Fiction, Own, Not Read 2. Not Determined, Junichiro Tanizaki, Fiction, Not Owned, Not Read 3. Not Determined, Natsume Soseki, Fiction, Not Owned, Not Read 4. Pillow Book, Sei Shonagun, Fiction, Not Owned, Not Read 5. Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu, Fiction, Not Owned, Not Read 6. Not Determined, Not Determined, About Japan's recession, Not Owned, Not Read 7. Not Determined, Not Determined, About Japan's fictional culture, Not Owned, Not Read 8. Not Determined, Not Determined, About hikikomori, Not Owned, Not Read 9. Not Determined, Not Determined, About anatomy, Not Owned, Not Read 10. Not Determined, Not Determined, About the Nuremburg Trials, Not Owned, Not Read 11. Not Determined, Not Determined, About Imperial Japan, Not Owned, Not Read 12. Not Determined, Not Determined, About Japan's postwar period, Not Owned, Not Read
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Another great gag from "Connecticut Yankee":
An illustration from Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King's Arthur Court", drawn by Dan Beard. It depicts a begging dog transforming into a begging peasant. It also depicts a wealthy bearded man with a gut transforming into a crane. The caption says simply, "Evolution."
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Oh, some of the best gags in "Yankee":
An illustration from Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", drawn by Dan Beard. It depicts two knights with the caption: "Some of the Boys Going a Grailing."
July 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM