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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 31, 2025

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 8 (1834)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/63317…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 29, 2025

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: I’ve noticed that comic book superheroes usually fight evil maniacs with grandiose plans to destroy the world. Why don’t superheroes go after more subtle, realistic bad guys?

HOBBES: Yeah, the superhero could attend council meetings and write letters to the editor, and stuff.

CALVIN: Hmmm … I think I see the problem.

HOBBES: “Quick! To the Bat-Fax!”

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-11-08)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4107/

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Anima Oct 6, 2023

It's another one of those 'you're an adult, Harry' moments when you see a cheap used sectional for sale locally and think 'this could change everything!' #adulting #mundane #mundanity #furniture #couch

Knitronomicon Feb 15, 2023

I must be feeling a bit better, despite a restless night with a cough. (STILL!!!) I've just stripped the bed & put the sheets & the rest of the washing in the machine. Next step, of course, is to *remake* the bed, which will need more oomph. #mundanity #housework

Alys Torrance Jan 5, 2023

#Today I am cleaning my flat. For the past 6 months, someone did it for me once a fortnight, for 2hrs. It was great. But now her childcare (of course she is a woman) has fallen through so she's had to stop work. I'm living with Long Covid. That's why it was great. Her efficient 2 hrs is going to be my whole day. I quite like cleaning, on the upside. #mundanity #LongCovid

Karl Nov 15, 2022

The .ie instance is interesting to follow. I have absolutely no idea who any of you are, the odd 'famous' discluded, as your thoughts slip by into a possibly data archived void. Obviously it isn't busy now in the middle of the night but it sort of ebbs and flows all day like a busier home timeline.

The weather batters the house, as members scream at the sky. 100 years of tóraí majority rule, and the filling of boots.

Some interesting posts too. P-)

#Mundanity #Insomniac

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