"yami no naka ni / hitomi tojite / hoshi no kagayaki ni / mimi o sumashiteru"

[larryhammer]

(in the darkness / I close my eyes / and try to listen to / the brightness of the stars)

"Nothing breeds radicalism more than unhappiness unless it is leisure" is a very ugly statement.

Proof of water action on Mars. Which is to say, some preliminary findings have been confirmed.

Recent results from CERN are bringing up deep questions of what kind of universe we live in, and increasingly it looks like it we might be in one branch of a multiverse, each with slightly different laws and constants, with ours one of the few where it all works out that life can happen.

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Oh, and regarding the current leader in the last post's poll, the translation I have was first published in Beijing in 1979 and has a hilariously full-on Marxist introduction. That alone may make it worth reading.

---L.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think if you choose the Marxist edition for your next project you're pretty much obliged to post a few quotes from the introduction. (Although, are you sure it was just Marxism and not Mao Zedong Thought specifically? You don't want to get purged for counterrevolutionary misidentification.) --Matt

[larryhammer]

It is certainly Moaist, and even quotes the Great Leader a couple times. I'm not up on my shades of Marxism to tell whether anything is specifically Not Leninism.

---L.