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Unquote
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/27/unquote-689/
Published: November 27, 2024 18:43
“Home is the only place where you can go out and in. There are places you can go into, and places you can go out of, but the one place, if you do but find it, where you may go out and in both, is home.” — George MacDonald
Coverup
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/27/coverup-3/
Published: November 27, 2024 06:40
Suppose you have a publicity-seeking inchworm and want to keep him to yourself. What’s the smallest cover you can contrive to keep him hidden? He can writhe into any shape that an inch-long creature can take; you must always be able to turn your shape to…
“Orange”
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/26/orange/
Published: November 26, 2024 18:10
It’s true, you’re right; there is no rhyme. The effort is a waste of time. I happily concede defeat. But oranges were made to eat, And not to rhyme; I find it more enj- oyable to eat the orange. — James H. Rhodes
The Size of It
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/26/the-size-of-it-4/
Published: November 26, 2024 06:09
From W.H. Auden’s 1970 commonplace book A Certain World: David Hartley offered a vest-pocket edition of his moral and religious philosophy in the formula W = F2/L, where W is the love of the world, F is the fear of God, and L is the love of God. It is…
Thought
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/25/thought-2/
Published: November 25, 2024 19:06
“To read History is to run the risk of asking, ‘Which is more honorable? To rule over people, or to be hanged?'” — J.G. Seume
Early Adopter
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/25/early-adopter-2/
Published: November 25, 2024 06:02
At the start of H.G. Wells’ 1895 novella The Time Machine, the Time Traveller explains to his friends that “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and — Duration.” This idea, of conceiving time as a…
Pseudonyms
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/24/pseudonyms/
Published: November 24, 2024 06:53
Fictitious correspondents invented by T.S. Eliot in kick-starting a letters page in The Egoist in 1917: The Rev. Charles James Grimble Muriel A. Schwarz Charles Augustus Conybeare Helen B. Trundlett J.A.D. Spence Apparently this wasn’t unusual for Eliot,…
Bedfellows
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/23/bedfellows-2/
Published: November 23, 2024 06:31
I was in the chair at a most interesting meeting at the Wakefield Asylum last night. It was, too, a curious sensation, sleeping under the same roof as 1,500 lunatics. I was kept awake by thoughts of the kind of sleep that was going on about me. … I made…
Found Art
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/22/found-art/
Published: November 22, 2024 18:30
George Herrick notes this oddity in his 1997 commonplace book: The record of this U.S. congressional hearing on dirigible disasters contains an inadvertent poem — the encoded weather report for April 3, 1933: Washington numoil nihilist radnell deadly…
Round and Square
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/11/22/round-and-square/
Published: November 22, 2024 06:27
This rank impossibility by Kokichi Sugihara won second prize in the Neural Correlate Society’s 2016 illusion of the year contest. The key is that the top of each cylinder is not a planar curve. Dickinson College mathematician David Richeson has created an…