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life insurance frauds have a
distant precursor here
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And like VΓ’tsyαΊ₯s 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
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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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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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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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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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
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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Subjugated are those who embark, subjugated are those who
stay behind: but which are the more profoundly so?
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The conquerors err when they make the new world out to be the land of
success, they err when they ask the poets for hymns of victory, &
they err when they ostentatiously announce the proofs of
their effectiveness
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The new world is a promise of reimbursement, it is in its
entirety the reimbursement long past due to the bankers and
utve dupes of this old world, in other words it is the total
"test on the debt (that would be its exact definition)
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The new world is a promise of reimbursement, it is in its
entirety the reimbursement long past due to the bankers and
naive dupes of this old world, in other words it is the total
interest on the debt (that would be its exadt definition);
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The new world is a promise, pronounced here, on our soils, and today; the new world would effletively be a tomorrow we
await indefinitely but which in adtuality never comes
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ally itself to Egypt,
incite it to attack the holy places of Palestine, ask the sultan
to address the pope, somehow arrange for Amir Husayn's
glleys to do battle with Portugal's ships, nothing will work.
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of the Portuguese missionsthen some vulpine men, skilled enough to turn the maps over with a single hand, go off to root out an unseen country situated beyond the last known meridian
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wishes them a nice stay, with the devil.
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would hence
It be a question of acting as though the chimerical continents
were so valuable they were worth the price of humiliations
on their behalf
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Because to adopt a proprietary attitude towards invisible islands is either a proof of blindness, become lately a fashion of
the courts & palaces, or it is a deliberate strategy dedicated by
the crafty to the envious; to delude the people,
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One common point unites them: the letters of Vespucci
were composed, we know, by a group of poets, in Florence, no
doubt since it is far easier to write on land than whilst rocking
in a boat at sea
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