TITLE: Three Quotes on Human Behavior
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: April 08, 2020  2:42 PM
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 2019,
<A HREF="https://desert.glass/newsletter/week-43/">
   Robin Sloan</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 On the internet, if you stop speaking: you disappear.  And, by
 corollary: on the internet, you only notice the people who are
 speaking nonstop.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

 Some of the people speaking nonstop are the ones I wish would
 disappear for a while.

 ~~~~~

 1947, from
<A HREF="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/italys-response-to-coronavirus/607306/">
   Italy's Response to the Coronavirus</A>:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 Published in 1947, The Plague has often been read as an allegory,
 a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or the
 human condition.  But it's also a very good book about plagues,
 and about how people react to them -- a whole category of human
 behavior that we have forgotten.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

 A good book is good on multiple levels.

 ~~~~~

 1628, William Harvey, "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in
 Animals":

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 Doctrine, once sown, strikes deep its root, and respect for
 antiquity influences all men.  Still the die is cast, and
 my trust is in my love of the truth and the candour of
 cultivated minds.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

 I don't know why, but the phrase "the candor of cultivated minds"
 really stuck with me when I read it this week.
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