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James Laughlin, the founder of New Directions, with the playwright Tennessee Williams and the poet and philanthropist Ruth Walgreen Stephan, in 1969.CREDIT
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on February 16, 2016
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  • Nietzsche - Letter to Jacob Burckhardt
  • Borges
  • Clement of Alexandria - Against the Heathen (Kairos?)

"...knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use value."

- Jean Lyotard

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Matteo de Belatomicci - trns. from the 1657 folio - Bologna


Z, the perfect catalog


Z=w(r)

w=k/i

i=b(g)

r=b'(g')


w, potential knowledge of text; k, real knowledge; i, distilled and recorded information, the catalog; b, external bias; g, skill-practice; r, receiver-user, b', external bias receiver, g', knowledge-skill-practice of receiver

M value item deselection

M = (Circulation/Shelf Life) / (Last Action Span)

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