
The Folly of Endless Growth / Dominic Boyer
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Is Brooding Calves a Good Idea?
In the sixteenth century, in nurnberg, there was a cobbler, choir singer and habitual writer of plays, songs and poems named hans sah. He wrote a short comic fasna spill, a play for shrove d or carnival called dascabebaton at university of michigan. Professor martin walsh, now lecturer ameridus, introduced it to me in translation as brooding calves. It begins with a peasant sitting on a large wheel of cheese, out of which he believes cattle will hatch an that's exactly what goes through my head when people ask me, where do you get your ideas? They emerge spontaneously, calves
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