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 Every thing in this world is more sluggish than its neighbour; easily condensed and more ready to fall prostrate in the face of your earth. Every thing in this world is more sluggish than its neighbour; easily condensed and more ready to fall prostrate in the face of your earth.
  
-The world is packed with mutant objects that have struck hard bargains to become and remain temporarily as they are. 'Anything does not go' - some aggregates and associations are forced to the front, and others ultimately fail; so nothing here for the piss prophets to read.+The world is packed with mutant certainties, thrusting to become and remain temporarily as they are. 'Anything does not go' - some aggregates and associations are forced to the front, and others ultimately fail; so nothing here for the piss prophets to read.
  
 You are nothing but a heap of earth. The problem is not that the learning curve is so flat; the problem is that your slope is so negative. You are nothing but a heap of earth. The problem is not that the learning curve is so flat; the problem is that your slope is so negative.
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 Terrestrial thought depends on the memory of the sun, buried thought depends on the memory of the cosmos. Terrestrial thought depends on the memory of the sun, buried thought depends on the memory of the cosmos.
  
-Ablated minds, flickering switches, extinct mammoths.+Abbreviated mammoths, flickering switches, ablated minds.
  
 There are always two forces which serve to hold everything together in its own proper connection and proper form, as the strata and the limit of the literary palaeontologist's regard. There are always two forces which serve to hold everything together in its own proper connection and proper form, as the strata and the limit of the literary palaeontologist's regard.
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 Certainty is completely barriered against demonic entropy, tracing a harsh world-line. Certainty is completely barriered against demonic entropy, tracing a harsh world-line.
  
-That which simply _cannot_ be executed, which refuses to be executed in the world as it is.+That which simply cannot be executed, which refuses to be executed in the world as it is.
  
 Enclosure is the foundation of abstraction and language; a theatre of cruelty and of leakage. Enclosure is the foundation of abstraction and language; a theatre of cruelty and of leakage.
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 How can it be that any crash is always tearfully faked and falsified? How can it be that any crash is always tearfully faked and falsified?
  
-Technology is for the Morlocks, the underground people. Witness the hacker's delight in bunkers, in underground data centres. 
  
 With every (computer) crash, the programmer should be forced to drag her fingers through the earth endlessly. With every (computer) crash, the programmer should be forced to drag her fingers through the earth endlessly.
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 The confinement of the spirit of this logic inside what is a niched mineral stack can be brought closer to the ritual conspiracies of demons, or pacts with the devil. The confinement of the spirit of this logic inside what is a niched mineral stack can be brought closer to the ritual conspiracies of demons, or pacts with the devil.
  
-When you construct something like a computer, its thanks to an idealism contained in desultory turns: computers are made of circuits, and circuits render symbols, and symbols bear meaning.+When you construct something like a computer, it's thanks to an idealism contained in desultory turns: computers are made of circuits, and circuits render symbols, and symbols bear meaning.
  
-The read/write gives life to the dead symbol, at the price of the excluded human middle; quotation is nothing but fantasy. +The read/write head gives life to the dead symbol, at the price of the excluded human middle; quotation is nothing but fantasy.
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-The daydream of symbols without hyper-referents, the unchanging of the earth.+
  
 ACTIVE FRAME N ACTIVE FRAME N
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 Thinking is to be dragged in reverse from absolute animism all the way back to the Cretaceous. Unburying or violently expulsing a stack overflow or extinction event. Thinking is to be dragged in reverse from absolute animism all the way back to the Cretaceous. Unburying or violently expulsing a stack overflow or extinction event.
  
-Thought can give only after it has received; by itself it is nothing but an empty heap. The sun might not rise tomorrow, which isn't ever contradicted.+Thought can give only after it has received; by itself it is nothing but an empty heap. 
  
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