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  Charles Lamb I sincerely believe to be in some considerable degree insane. A more pitiful, rickety, gasping, staggering, stammering Tomfool I do not know.

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  —Thomas Carlyle (on Charles Lamb.), Fighting Words, p.21.

Archive for September, 2009

libel and science

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Olivia Judd’s science blog in the NYT today is about the effect of libel on science writing — very interesting.

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