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"A relic from a time the Soviet Union wasn't just presented as a unified 'Great Satan', where the debased gutterscrapings of anti-communist wasn't propped up as legit history (think Pipes, robert service, Black Book) and something like the USSR could be treated with a degree of fairness, even sympathy, as complex and multifaceted, deserving of proper analysis. Basically: lenin was right on almost everything." — Jul 02, 2025 12:03PM
"A relic from a time the Soviet Union wasn't just presented as a unified 'Great Satan', where the debased gutterscrapings of anti-communist wasn't propped up as legit history (think Pipes, robert service, Black Book) and something like the USSR could be treated with a degree of fairness, even sympathy, as complex and multifaceted, deserving of proper analysis. Basically: lenin was right on almost everything." — Jul 02, 2025 12:03PM
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer

“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ”
― The Waste Land and Other Poems
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ”
― The Waste Land and Other Poems

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