My wife has taken to referring to capybaras as guinea bigs.
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It's common to think of Moby Dick as about Ahab, and through him vengeance and mania. But it's also about that crew, and their fealty to the mania, their hunger for the heat of that vengeance. It's about obedience at the cost of consciense or reason.
A tale as old as time, as it were.
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@technomancy @glyph I've actually observed it in myself, and have deliberately pulled back to more brain-intensive, time-consuming, experientially satisfying practices.