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Wednesday, April 09, 2003

�My desires only are, and I shall be happy therein, to be but the last man, and bring up the rear in heaven.�
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 � 1682), English physician, author and antiquary: �Religio Medici�, 1643.

�In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o�clock in the morning.�
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 � 1940), American writer: �The Crack-Up), 1945.

�Discipline is a political anatomy of detail.�
- Michel Foucault (1926 � 1984), French philosopher: �Docile Bodies� in �Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison�, 1975.

�Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is �sexier� than communism.�
- Susan Sontag (b. 1933), American essayist: �Fascinating Fascism�, 1974, reprinted in �Under the Sign of Saturn�, 1980.


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