"Do you think I care if they talk nonsense? Hogwash! Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. If you keep talking big nonsense, you will get to sense. I am a man, therefore I talk nonsense. Nobody ever got a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first. Maybe even a hundred and fourteen. That's all right in its own way. We don't even know how to talk nonsense intelligently, though!"Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; as quoted by Charles Bowden in Contested Ground; as excerpted in the January 2010 Harper's.
Yeah, that's what this blog is—the nonsense I write in order to eventually get to sense.
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