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Literary history of extremely large numbers. That changed the world.

These are still hard to read.

A small portion of DFW's unfinished novel.

"Riding a bike in New York was like spelunking or white-water rafting, and in those days, bikers traveled best at night, when traffic was light."

Neolithic Snopes.

"The information which it contains will be found to be greatly in advance of anything which has yet been presented to the English Reader; and, as far as facilities for practical management are concerned, it is believed to be a very material advance over anything which has hitherto been communicated to the Apiarian Public."

"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."

Ensouling bees.

"Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, 'When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.' From the audience, Frank called out, 'Sometimes it is!'"

"It’s fun to think of it as ‘dusty’ blue because of what befalls it later. It’s by far the best suit in the movie, in the movies, perhaps the whole world."

If this isn't complete yet, they sure seem to be working on it.

Short essay with accompanying photographs by Edward Curtis of Native Americans made up and costumed to look like Native Americans.

"Thus Casablanca is not just one film. It is many films, an anthology. Made haphazardly, it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control."

"...or whether the whole page will read (as it did for seventeen minutes on April 26, 2006): 'HES A BIG STUPID HEAD.' James Conant was, after all, in some important ways, a big stupid head."