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belles-lettres

In the course of a life dedicated to belles-lettres and, occasionally, to the perplexities of metaphysics, I have glimpsed or foreseen a refutation of time

—p.45 A New Refutation of Time (44) by Jorge Luis Borges
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preterite

it is an anachronistic reductio ad absurdum of a preterite system or, what is worse, the feeble artifice of an Argentinian gone astray in the maze of metaphysics

—p.44 A New Refutation of Time (44) by Jorge Luis Borges
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clinamen

If Lucretius's clinamen existed, that random swerve that can disrupt the arc of fate, it wouldn't be located in atoms but in those people

looked it up i guess it means bias lol

—p.169 by Belén Gopegui
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clinamen

If Lucretius's clinamen existed, that random swerve that can disrupt the arc of fate, it wouldn't be located in atoms but in those people

looked it up i guess it means bias lol

—p.169 by Belén Gopegui
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propitiousness

even the propitious ability to delay gratification

—p.72 by Belén Gopegui
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