I have recently purchased a copy of the above work to complete my set; but before doing so, I enquired of Mr. Pickering the publisher, if it was in all respects as well executed as the first copies. The answer, however, gave me no more information than “that the numbers of vol. i. Arch. Camb., which were destroyed by fire, have been reprinted, so as to make up a few copies, and the price is consequently 21s.” The “reprint” is not as well executed as the original copies, inasmuch as nearly a whole page of interesting matter is omitted, and very few of the reprinted pages correspond with the good old ones. I have been a long time looking for the first volume of the Archæologia Cambrensis, the greater portion of which had been so unfortunately destroyed by fire; and though I cannot consider the “reprint” quite as good as the old copies, still I was very glad to obtain it. I trouble you with this “Note,” not because I am dissatisfied with the mode of execution of the reprint, but in the hope that some of your correspondents will favour me with a few words on the work, and inform me why the page has been omitted, and why the reprinted pages do not agree with those of the old copies. Are there any other faults in the “reprint” which may have escaped my notice?

10. Pineapples
  9. Kittens
  8. Lasers
  7. Magnets
  6. Heidegger
  5. Tuesday
  4. Protein
  3. Guns
  2. Jesus
  1. You 

It is upon the surface tension of an Apollonian style, along the faults and cracks of rigor and rhythm, that I enact a more fundamental disruption of the function of language.

By around 3.5 billion years ago, a living entity had evolved with a genome that consisted of recipes for making RNAs and proteins – the last universal common ancestor of all life. At least 100 genes can confidently be traced all the way back to LUCA, says Eugene Koonin of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies the evolution of life, and LUCA probably had more than 1000 genes in total.

LUCA had a lot of the core machinery still found in all life today, including that for making proteins. Yet it may have been quite unlike life as we know it today. Some researchers believe that LUCA wasn’t a discrete, membrane-bound cell at all but rather a mixture of virus-like elements replicating inside some non-living compartment, such as the pores of alkaline hydrothermal vents.

Michael Le Page, “A brief history of the human genome,” New Scientist, 17 September 2012

I am frustrated because I can’t read enough or fast enough and will never get to read everything I want to and can’t reconcile myself to that in a way that lets me prioritize how I use my reading time, let alone whatever other time I spend in my life that would supposedly be an appropriate use of that reading.

The clichés of art’s reconciling glow enfolding the world are repugnant because they parody the emphatic concept of art with its bourgeois version and class it among those Sunday institutions that provide solace. These clichés rub against the wound that art itself bears.

– Adorno

They are seven! they are seven!

In the depths of ocean they are seven!

In the heights of heaven they are seven!

In the ocean-stream in a palace they were born!

Male they are not: female they are not!

Wives they have not: children are not born to them!

Rule they have not: government they know not!

Prayers they hear not!

They are seven! they are seven!