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  <title>Echoes in a Hollow Space</title>
  <subtitle>I'm here because I'm here because I'm here</subtitle>
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    <title>Geometry</title>
    <published>2023-03-13T21:51:40Z</published>
    <updated>2023-03-13T21:51:40Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;strong&gt;Random quote of the day:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;—Gustav Flaubert, letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/geometry4WP@@@.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7709" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/geometry4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="566" height="384" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&amp;ditemid=2052790" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:1978889</id>
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    <title>Economics</title>
    <published>2021-08-19T20:50:17Z</published>
    <updated>2021-08-19T20:52:58Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Random quote of the day:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;“The prestige accorded to mathematics in economics has given it rigor, but, alas, also mortis.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000000;"&gt;—Robert L. Heilbroner, &lt;em&gt;Modern Economics As a Chapter in the History of Economic Thought&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/economics4WP@@@.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7012" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/economics4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="576" height="343" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #808080;"&gt;Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&amp;ditemid=1978889" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-04:264091:808042</id>
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    <title>Do the math</title>
    <published>2011-11-14T17:06:17Z</published>
    <updated>2021-08-20T22:53:48Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Random quote of the day:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—Thomas Wolfe, &lt;em&gt;Look Homeward, Angel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/crete4WP@@@.jpg"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1169" title="crete4WP@@@" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/crete4WP@@@.jpg" alt="" width="552" height="371" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #888888;"&gt;Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align: right"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Mirrored from &lt;a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=1168" title="Read Original Post"&gt;Better Than Dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pjthompson&amp;ditemid=808042" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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