For K. M. K.,
still my favorite eschatologist
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 1977, p. v.
et cetera
trivia since 2002
Had he read Democritus, he might have discovered, in philosophy's first collection of ethical precepts, among portents of atheism, and the vision of his own soul composed of round, smooth, especially mobile atoms, that it is the unexpected which occurs.
—William Gaddis, The Recognitions