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since it is an era of antitheses & controversies,
an era of graphomaniacs, omnipotent, omnivorous savants,
compilers, encyclopædists, curious men and bibliophiles:
whoever wants to enumerate them all must have a steady voice
and lungs of steel.
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According to theApparatusPraticus, that opportunism explains how, without
lifting so much as a finger, one can manage to claim someone
else's voyage for oneself (a printer in Holland published
the travelogues of Balthasar Sprenger
replacing name with Vespucci).
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life insurance frauds have a
distant precursor here
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today, the curious reader of the Refutation may find Guevara's
name, his life, and his work in one of the chapters of Wooden
Eyes, signed Carlo Ginzburg - a historian famous for having attended the witches sabbath and likening che world to a
spoilt cheese.
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And like Vâtsyấs erotic reatise, the
Refutation of Anthony would require us to weave together
six or seven fraudulent copies, six or seven paraphrases, and
several commentaries, even petulant, in order to reestablish
the text in its entirety,
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Printed for The Hindoo Kama Sbastra
Society -to which the editor adds: For Private Circulation Only.
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In London, in I883, 250 copies were published of a 198-page in-octavo with the exact title The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, Translated from the Sanscrit,
Complete in Seven Parts, with Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks. Benares: #Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Finally, we will entrust the memory of humanity to a few librarians, because they are the ones who are eliminated the most rapidly, with the approbationof the laughing onlookers; then we will look in vain for ourname in books& this will be yet another form of eternity
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the colonists so frustrated for victims, for
want of natives abroad, will at last colonize their very selves.
Which is to say: we will finally colonize ourselves
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The day that every tribe will have
been uprooted, the day it will no longer be possible to go on
inventing new lands to exile our unwanted mercenaries to, the
day we will no more be able to pretend to mistake an Ottoman for an Indian,
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To declare the truth starts me falling in the void, expressing it perfects my
solitude and drives my nearest neighbour still farther away (I have very little use, undoubtedly, for a near neighbour)
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I curse those on whom nothing is
lost and who, once they have turned a book's last page, are
convinced they have done all that there was to do, & rejoice
in that tautology, as they might at the fulfllment of a duty.
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Hence, I fear at times that I too will end up like those dupes of the new world: believing, fooled, escorted by tales, ready to leave on raft to drown myself in the open sea, there where the world ends, where it runs off into absurdity.
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THE LETTER OF DR. DIEGO ALVAREZ CHANCA, DATED
1494, RELATING TO THE SECOND VOYAGE OF CO-
LUMBUS TO AMERICA
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Tordesillas:the place where non-dupes finish outtheir days,in convents or asylums,where their voices strike the walls,return tothe ears of the criers, resound inthe interiors of cloisters never escaping save inthe form of idiotic stammerings or litanies devoid of sense #Senges25

Tordesillas:the place where non-dupes finish outtheir days,in convents or asylums,where their voices strike the walls,return tothe ears of the criers, resound inthe interiors of cloisters never escaping save inthe form of idiotic stammerings or litanies devoid of sense #Senges25

the difference between the true
and the false loses all meaning,just as in the final circle of Hell
the difference between men and women becomes null and
void.
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to ask an usurper to chase off another usurper, but the risk
of setting in motion a perpetual swerve is great.
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When faced with a lie, other minds artful but bereft of scruples, owing to their dearth, propose the lie itself, brought from elsewhere and fashioned to new ends; they count on the sword-fighters to kill offthe sword-fighters
& the lawyers to debate the lawyers:
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Truth is sometimes puritan, when spoken
by chest-thumping clerks, crazy-for-Christ types who gnaw
themselves down to the bone and stick out their heads to be
chopped off-'tis a virtue of men who pronounce themselves
perfect
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that truth which is made up of timorous silence, of time, questioning, and adumbration fails when it comes face-to-face with the lie, the lie being sprightly, performative, incontestable as a blemish, and possessing the authority of a tocsin or call to prayer. #Senges25

With difficulty I console
myself with the idea that my Refutation is not strictly speaking
a work of debunking, and uniquely that, but rather an invitation from one dupe to other dupes to listen to how the stories
go round and repeat
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their self-regard, for example. #Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

The most difficult, Sire, is not to gainsay the beguilers, who grow rich from the voyages and perpetuate the lie, the
most difficult is rather to gainsay the dupes, who stand to lose
a lot from the invention but would have Still more to lose from
my Refutation: #Senges25

but in the end he attacked only a centuries-old story, handed down by word of mouth, as bewitching as Stories of all-night parties that confound day with night, right & left; he refuted in the end a simple document,a counterfeit devised at a passing glance& vulnerable
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My master Valla took it upon himself to refute a dead pope,a long dead emperor, a legion of theologians enamored
of their patrimony & the core of the military orders, interested in questions of property & power
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if I can be certain at death's door of finding the friends I lost long ago-
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the shoreless place with-out bottom where naifs are sent to their perdition,
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the shoreless place with-out bottom where naifs are sent to their perdition,
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