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  1. Stulta haec invidia est, cui cuncta recentia sordent. Invida stultitia est, cui nova sola placent 12:09 AM Dec 1st from TweetDeck
  2. A monkey does a handstand on top of a tight rope walking goat http://tinyurl.com/ybsd6st 12:25 AM Nov 13th from TweetDeck
  3. Peter the Great is the most interesting chap I never heard of.On his death bed he wrote a note that started "Leave all to...." but then died 11:31 PM Nov 9th from TweetDeck
  4. Hadron Collider ready to roll again http://tinyurl.com/yd45ebk 12:49 AM Nov 3rd from TweetDeck
  5. The Case for Modesty, in an Age of Arrogance - http://tinyurl.com/yzaxal8 12:32 AM Nov 1st from TweetDeck
  6. to counteract the relentless internet stream of information, I am considering reading Proust 11:30 PM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
  7. the best flag in the world- http://tinyurl.com/yet77yl 12:44 AM Oct 27th from TweetDeck
  8. misology - hatred of reason 11:36 AM Oct 23rd from web
  9. chimerical - a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve 12:10 AM Oct 20th from TweetDeck
  10. There was no longer any sense of what was great and what ridiculous. 4:49 PM Oct 17th from TweetDeck
  11. the path not taken... http://tinyurl.com/nmngtu 1:24 AM Oct 15th from TweetDeck
  12. non sequitir: Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Fish. 12:54 AM Oct 15th from TweetDeck
  13. Confessions of a Middlebrow http://tinyurl.com/ya7s9ts 1:41 AM Oct 13th from TweetDeck
  14. Wall Street Journal article: Man vs God http://tinyurl.com/l4n2ar 12:58 AM Oct 6th from TweetDeck
  15. check out Harvard University course on Justice free via YouTube http://tinyurl.com/yey37oe 5:07 PM Oct 2nd from TweetDeck
  16. 90 pages in, and I've given up on Julie & Julia. I'll wait for the movie, and then probably walk out on that too 1:19 AM Sep 16th from TweetDeck
  17. is library without books still library? http://tinyurl.com/ofe4ty 3:27 AM Sep 14th from TweetDeck
  18. I have committed ritual Facebook suicide. 1:59 AM Sep 3rd from web
  19. the lost art of reading http://tiny.cc/55bno 10:57 PM Aug 10th from web
  20. I always enjoy a Michael Pollan article http://tinyurl.com/nkkrl6 3:12 AM Aug 2nd from TweetDeck
  • Name Stephen Sanderson
  • Location Auckland, New Zealand
  • Web http://thewestern...
  • Bio Reading the great books of the Western Canon (amongst others) one book at a time
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