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The Tangled Roots of War and Peace

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty

Orwell says that the final command of big brother was to let me see if i can find it. He saw language is a contract we make among ourselves, a lie. And he wrote about lies more than almost any one in his time. I keep thinking about another english writer, the poet john keats, who wrote, beauty is truth, truth beauty.

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