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No Sour Grapes From Noda…

August 28, 2008 David Hurley 0

Noda, Ray and David arranged an Obon holiday season game of mahjong but neglected to inform Mama-san at Kodama, who shut up shop in order to go and pray at her ancestors’ ancient monument as is the custom of the inhabitants of these islands so to do. Noda had spent [Read more…]

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In The Beginning There Was Terror

August 25, 2008 David Hurley 0

“Machiavelli‘s return to the beginning means return to the primeval or original terror which precedes every man-made terror, which explains why the founder must use terror and which enables him to use terror. Machiavelli‘s return to the beginning means return to the terror inherent in man’s situation, to man’s essential [Read more…]