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One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified an mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. Another, that the history of the universe — and in it our lives and the most tenuous detail of our lives — is the scripture produced by a subordinate god in order to communicate with a demon. Another, that the universe is comparable to those cryptographs in which not all the symbols are valid and that only what happens every three hundred nights is true. Another, that while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men.

This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. (I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm . . . They admit that the inventors of this writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but maintain that this application is accidental and that the books signify nothing in themselves. This dictum, we shall see, is not entirely fallacious.)

He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark. He had not written it down, since anything he thought of once would never be lost to him. His first stimulus was, I think, his discomfort at the fact that the famous thirty-three gauchos of Uruguayan history should require two signs and two words, in place of a single word and a single sign. He then applied this absurd principle to the other numbers. In place of seven thousand thirteen he would say (for example) Maximo Pérez; in place of seven thousand fourteen, The Railroad; other numbers were Luis Melián Lafinur, Olimar, sulphur, the reins, the whale, the gas, the caldron, Napoleon, Agustin de Vedia. In place of five hundred, he would say nine. Each word had a particular sign, a kind of mark; the last in the series were very complicated...

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          /**
           * GENERIC POLLING SERVICE, used by Migrations panel to poll /migrations on page
           * load and on new migration requests
           */

          projectMigrationApp.factory('PollingService', [
          		'$http',
          		function($http) {
          			var defaultPollingTime = 10000;
          			var polls = {};

          			return {
          				startPolling : function(name, url, pollingTime, callback) {
          					if (!polls[name]) {
          						var poller = function() {
          							$http.get(url, {
          								cache : false
          							}).then(callback);
          						};
          						poller();
          						polls[name] = setInterval(poller, pollingTime || defaultPollingTime);
          					}
          				},
          				stopPolling : function(name) {
          					clearInterval(polls[name]);
          					delete polls[name];
          				}
          			};
          		} ]);

Absolute positioning

In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Exceptions

Tabular data: Graunt's table of casualties

The Years of our Lord	1647	1648	1649	1650	1651	1652	1653	1654	1655	1656	1657	1658	1659	1660	1629	1630	1631	1632	1633	1634	1635	1636	1629-1632	1633-1636	1647-1650	1651-1654	1655-1658	1629, 1649, 1659	in 20 years
Colick, and Wind	103	71	85	82	76	102	80	101	85	120	113	179	116	167	48	57	0	0	0	0	37	50	105	87	341	359	497	247	1389
Cold, and Cough	0	0	0	0	0	0	41	36	21	58	30	31	33	24	10	58	51	55	45	54	50	57	174	207	0	77	140	43	598
Consumption, and Cough	2423	2200	2388	1988	2350	2410	2286	2868	2606	3184	2757	3610	2982	3414	1827	1910	1713	1797	1754	1955	2080	2477	5157	8266	8999	9914	12157	7197	44487
Convulsion	684	491	530	493	569	653	606	828	702	1027	807	841	742	1031	52	87	18	241	221	386	418	709	498	1734	2198	2656	3377	1324	9073
Cramp	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	2
Cut of the Stone	0	2	1	3	0	1	1	2	4	1	3	5	46	48	0	0	0	5	1	5	2	2	5	10	6	4	13	47	38

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