Alternatively: everyone is a Delphic Oracle
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Nietzsche viewed brevity in a positive light: "The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book."
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Language is ever adaptive to the state of mind and culture. We are fortunate to keep the gifts of the past, even as we investigate the now.
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Took long enough
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He might have been speaking of Twitter and Facebook when he said, "Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them."
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that's not humanity wearying of longform, though, that's a consequence of medium. Twitter limits how many characters you can use and the Roman alphabet is phonetic. Logogramic writing systems like Chinese and Japanese don't have that problem.
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Dr. Johnson would have been all over Twitter, mostly to insult the Scots. And Boswell's account would be all Johnson retweets.
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You are incorrect in that assumption, Sir.
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