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Today I realize that many recent exercises in 'deconstructive reading' read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity. Umberto Eco		Monday May 11, 2026
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Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. Herbert Sebastian Agar

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	Herbert Sebastian Agar
	(1897-1980) The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in Democracy, 1933 - US author, wrote historian, Pulitzer Prize for history 1934.

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.