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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Bonfire of the inanities


From xkcd.com.
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[...]
“So what choice have you got?” she said.
“I don't know. The way I see it, it’s like shoveling snow. You do it because somebody’s got to, not because it's fun.”
“Shoveling snow, huh?” she mused.
“Well, you know, cultural snow,” I said.
—from Dance Dance Dance, by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
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