Nate Walker sent me an email with a quote from Emile Cioran which referenced
a quote by Paul Valery. <p>

<blockquote>
"Our disease being history's, the disease of history's eclipse, we must fall back on Valery's remark, 
     must exacerbate its bearing:  we know, now, that all civilization is mortal, that we are hurtling torward
     horizons of apoplexy, torward the miracles of the worst, torward the golden age of terror."
</blockquote>

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Nate's just playing with the "torward", but I was irked by Cioran's use of
three examples to support his point. Examples always come in threes, I think,
because it flows easily, even though it's predictable (boring). But, there's
not much that attempts to explain or establish a rubric for the number of
reduplications, that I can find. Worst case is that this means I won't be able
to listen to any more techno. ;)

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