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Extraordinary Discourse 086

Moiety Bricolage Entertainment for thinking workers and players. I am willing to pass for a fool in my own desperate, perhaps foolish, efforts to persuade them to lift the veil from off the possible and future, which they hold down with both their hands, before their eyes. The most valuable communication or news consists of hints and suggestions. Henry Thoreau …men [sic] will have to be less like Achilles, imposing their will on the world, and more like Odysseus, the crafty, many-sided sojourner. Why Men Fail By DAVID BROOKS New York Times Published: September 10, 2012            Superfluous Supernumerary: more than is needed, desired, or required. Surprise    Rousseau: supplement : his word to describe writing: it means        both the missing piece and the extra piece.           Surplus    ...