Daily bread 07/10/2018

• The Entire History of Steel

  tags: pronunciation

• The roots of writing lie in hopes and dreams, not in accounting | Aeon Essays

  tags: pronunciation

  • first and foremost
  • track people, land and economic production
  • large sedentary populations
  • to be coopted by
  • the oft-told narrative
  • to up-end their story
  • pristine
  • rations food
  • levies taxes
  • crude functionalist conclusion that
  • the evidence suggests otherwise
  • pivoting to
  • an unabashed partisan of
  • a diehard literate
  • barely watch
  • marks me as a philistine
  • a dimmer future for
  • hopes pinned on
  • to throw some gravel at
  • unshackle ourselves
  • gunpowder
  • life-prolonging substances
  • composed of
  • that makes things go boom.
  • overtly political function

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