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Outside there in the street the young folk were dancing. Dancing as if yesterday they didn't have a riotous beer-spilling raid; as if tomorrow they might not have a pass and tax raid. For them today was just a chunk of sweetened and flavoured Time. And in all this there was a spirit of permanence which they felt, without thinking about it.
from "The Lesanes of Nadia Street," a short story published in 1956 by the South African writer Ezekiel (Es'kia) Mphahlele
inna al-ʿayna tadmaʿu, wal-qalba yaḥzanu, wa lā naqūlu illā mā yarḍā...
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning.
Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
...أبو عمران المكسيكي
there are holes in the narrative...
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fun ASCII art of Mudd 1206 (Electrical Engineering Teaching Lab)
We use the term "surrogate activity" to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the "fulfillment" that they get from pursuing the goal... Thus it is not surprising that modern society is full of surrogate activities. These include scientific work, athletic achievement, humanitarian work, artistic and literary creation, climbing the corporate ladder, acquisition of money and material goods far beyond the point at which they cease to give any additional physical satisfaction, and social activism when it addresses issues that are not important for the activist personally, as in the case of white activists who work for the rights of nonwhite minorities... Scientific work may be motivated in part by a drive for prestige, artistic creation by a need to express feelings, militant social activism by hostility. But for most people who pursue them, these activities are in large part surrogate activities. For example, the majority of scientists will probably agree that the "fulfillment" they get from their work is more important than the money and prestige they earn.
idhā mā unāsun fākharūnā bimālihim
fa innī bimīrāthi an-nabiyyīna fākhiru
alam tara anna al-ʿilma yudhkaru ahluhu
bikulli jamīlin fīhi wal-ʿaẓmu nākhiru...