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What's in a name? A rose is a rose is a ƛ̕iiḥciip*
* "flower" in Huuy-ay-aht
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Christopher Mooney
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Did Francisco Goya eat paella?
Are Popes infallible? Do Presidents shit in their hats?
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Christopher Mooney
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This is What My Brain Looks Like
On Covid in Canada Just Before the Polls Close in France
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Christopher Mooney
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June 2024

Sunset on Mars?
Reading and writing are dead. The Fifth Republic just took a dump. I like fish. Typhus is terrifying.
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Christopher Mooney
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Plus ça. Change.
“Ce peuple, apparemment tranquille, est encore dangereux.”—Raymond Aron
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Christopher Mooney
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“They do not know the Way"
The sane should flee/ from whence madmen command/ because when blind men lead/ woe to those who follow behind! —Gómez Manrique, 1480
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Christopher Mooney
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Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like the yeast and fungi that cause the fermentation of organic matter.
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Christopher Mooney
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Naufragios
The order of things is not motionless—Juan Meléndez Valdés, 1773
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Christopher Mooney
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May 2024

Swing States
Perceptions received by the ears or by reflection can be most easily retained if they are also conveyed to our minds by the mediation of the eyes…
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Christopher Mooney
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One abnormally born.
I am back in Paris after New York and before that, Amsterdam, and before that, the Sarthe and the Cévennes, none of which I’ve written about yet. What…
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Christopher Mooney
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1+1=3: The Summerfield sums of the one and the many
In loving memory of Julie Wyn Summerfield (October 1, 1954 - May 7, 2024)
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Christopher Mooney
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We are again engaged in a great civil war.
A cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what lives in your heart. – National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston…
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Christopher Mooney
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