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I always found it fascinating that different parts of the world have animals and plants that other parts of the world don’t have.

Idk why

People seem to forget his day job was as a philologist.

When I read George I first thought of Castanza because he would try something like this to avoid procrastinating.

I probably have one of those idk

Oh I thought they meant like after you woke up, if you had like a play you put on to act out what happened in your dreams

I’m an idiot

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It’s also very hard for victims to testify. They might be relieved by the decision. Hard for us to know how they feel.

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It is. It’s from The Fellowship of the Ring.

> I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

It’s a depressing, albeit realistic, quote tbh. Frodo is about to embark on his journey with the ring, and he knows it is going to be hard. He doesn’t want to go, but he has to or the world ends. It has nothing to do with making your own decisions. It’s about accepting that you’re going to have live through some bad shit whether you like it or not, because sometimes life’s a bitch and then you die. In other words, it’s meaning is the opposite of OP’s title. Sometimes you don’t get to decide, and you just have to make do with, or make the most of, the time or life you’ve been given.

Reminds me of homer disappearing into the bushes

Correct much of this isn’t really new to people who have even been in these areas for a while. The locals will even tell you there are ruins here or there, and that nobody is doing anything with them. But if he wants to get the funding for professional archaeology, he needs to bring it to the masses as a “discovery,” but in reality none of this is new.

I used to live down that way but on the Mexico side of the border. They are constantly finding new stuff. Some of it is even known but nobody has bothered to go about digging carefully. The Maya empire was vast and powerful.

Not me I like vacations

You should read The Dispossessed if you haven’t. One of my favorite novels of all time, and it’s got anarchism.