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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Supernatural S04E05

Monday, October 20, 2008

Evidently I have nothing better to write about than television shows; specifically, Supernatural. With the exception of Dean deciding he will give Castiel an affectionate nickname, “Cas” (I still maintain it should be “Cass”), the most recent episode (S04E05) was significantly more entertaining that than the previous. While breaking the boundaries of the fourty-two minute [...]

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Supernatual S04E03 and 04

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Other than the usual problems caused by time travel – for instance, in seasons one and two, Azazel didn’t seem to know any of the information he learnt from Dean in S04E03 such that Dean would kill him with the Colt and that Dean would be touched by an angel – the previous two episodes [...]

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Help with Latin

Sunday, October 5, 2008

I would be really, really grateful if someone could help me with the following:
Miraris arte conditas mira domos,
Opesque regales in his reconditas?
Solertia et labore siunt omnia.
It appears as an epigram to a symbolic representation of a beehive as a well ordered kingdom in a seventeenth century book published in England. I’ve managed to decipher the [...]

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Regarding the financial crisis

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

In 1968, Alexandre Kojeve, then one of the chief planners for the European Common Market working the French Ministry of Economic Affairs, was asked what the students in the streets of Paris should do. Kojeve’s answer was “learn Greek.” It is only in recent years through Giorgio Agamben’s work that we’ve come to understand what [...]

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