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  • The Oracle at Dolphin (4.4)

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    K. L. Homme
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    A dragoness born of mud—a child of Gaia named Python—guarded this cave from which her mother’s oracle spoke, at Pytho. Legend tells that the dragoness was drawn into the jealousy of Zeus’s sister-wife, Hera. Gentle Leto carried the faithless Zeus’s twins—Artemis and Apollo—in her womb. In her jealousy, Hera set the serpent upon the Titaness.

  • An Ontology of Equality

    An Ontology of Equality

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    K. L. Homme
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    Orwell warned us that authoritarian governments flatten description and constrict vocabulary in order to maintain control. They repeat words, phrases, and slogans so incessantly that at last these become as familiar as our own voice, and we mistake their rhetoric for truth, and measure all things against it. What does not fit the familiar description…