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Friday, December 23rd, 2005

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    9:23p
    This sexist world


    "Is E=mc2 a sexed equation?...Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest."


    (c) Luce Irigaray, translated from French, via edricson.

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    9:30p
    Nothing is new


    Which justifies me re-telling some dated news.

    dreiviertel says she's found a text evidencing that the syntacticians' favorite model sentence, John beat (up) Pete, was first used no later than in 9th century. Indeed, in its Latin form: Fortis Iohannus multum percussit debilem Petrum or simply Iohannus percussit Petrum.

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