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...fringe than most people who will shell out to see The Two Towers, but as John Adcox, 38, a fantasy fan in Atlanta, points out, it's all relative. "If I told you about a group that dresses oddly, paints their bodies and gathers by the thousand to share an enthusiasm, who would you think of?" he asks. "Right, football fans." Point taken...
...history has no culmination! There is always as much in front as behind. There is no libretto. History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. ... We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us. ... What kind of beast is this ... this Moloch who promises us that everything will be beautiful after we're dead? A distant end is not an end but a trap. The end we work for must be closer: the labourer's wage, the pleasure in the work done, the summer lightning of personal happiness...
...Quiz: Oslo tastes like a) Lutefisk; b) Reindeer; c) Raisin buns; d) Um, you're weird - a city doesn't taste of anything. There's no absolute right answer, but I'd choose c). Every city has its own flavor, and I can't think about Norway's thousand-year-old, Viking-founded capital (pop. 515,000) without recalling the flavor of its traditional raisin buns - warm puffs of barely cinnamony bread punctuated by sweet morsels of fruit...
...impact” on Blanchard’s, which is stating the obvious. Considering the large amount of people coming in for the weekend, Blanchard’s and other area keg sellers are missing out on an opportunity to sell hundreds, if not a thousand kegs...
...thousand men of Harvard want victory today/ Nananananananana na Harvard nana nay!/ Nanana na na na na nanana/ Na na na na naaa, na na na na/ Ten thousand men of Harvard gained victory today...