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• A short - although necessary - trip to Washington D.C.
• Writing the ol’ preface
• I’m moving and - on a good day - can find way to my computer amongst the commotion and chaos of switching apartments
• Haven’t found any remarkable FPoTW in quite some time.  But, I’m reading Creswell again, so I’m certain I’ll find something remarkable there :)

Sometimes when I’m filtering through all the blog spam (my widget won’t work), I feel like John Nash and someone’s trying to send me secret messages to decode.  Then I realize that they’re all either porn ads or cash payday loans and I remember that I’m creating alternative jobs for myself again.  Dang.

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

And another thing: all this time away from my blog has made be detest blog spam even more!

Oh, it’s good to be home.  So many FPotW to catch up on, so little time…

From Marx and Engels’ The German Ideology:

“A clever fellow once got the idea that people drown because they are possessed by the idea of gravity” (405).

tired of my blog title, I changed it back.  Presto manifesto was fun while it lasted, but “and it’s” is back.

Sorry, Clay, I still am trying to find my fave from Creswell.  Any suggestions?  In the mean time, here’s one from Jaeger’s Paideia III:

“With this pettifogging, Isocrates contrasts the simple effort to find out what is true: which he conceived to be the effort to get experience of reality and to educate oneself for political action.  Philosophers are always chasing the phantom of pure knowledge, but no one can use their results” (68).

Why does this make the FPotW cut? “Pettifogging” and “chasing the phantom of pure knowledge” (which I think would be a helluva lot funnier if it was “chasing the dragon of pure knowledge,” but it’s still pretty dang hilar.)
Also, Jeff pointed out that Isocrates sounds a bit too much like I, Robot, and commenced calling him I,socrates and I am socrates (in debt to Legend of the I am variety) on our Friday study day.

I did it–Presto Manifesto, in honor of all you Dexter fans out there…