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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book IV, Chapter 45), circa 170.

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.143, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

"Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

Information work is thinking work.

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.16, Hachette UK

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”