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BELIEVING is believing!

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A BATTERY OF "SMOKERS" determine the burning time of 16 of the largest-selling brands. Trained scientists and special equipment assure scientific control. Camels (shown here under test) proved 25% slower-burning than the average of the 15 other brands tested, giving Camel smokers the equivalent of 5 extra smokes per pack!

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'...and fear that the instrumental logic of machines conceals a void of meaning.' (5) Factory for the Absolute

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"The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno in the original Czech) [printed in translation as 'the Factory for the Absolute' (PT)] is a science fiction novel written by Czech author Karel Čapek in 1922.

The story centers on the invention of a reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy. Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the absolute. The absolute is a spiritual essence that according to some religious philosophies allegedly permeates all matter. It is associated with human religious experience, as the unsuspecting humanity is to find out all too soon in the story. The widespread adoption of the reactors cause an enormous outpouring of pure absolute into the world. This leads to an outburst of religious and nationalist fervor, causing the greatest, most global war in history... "

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'...and fear that the instrumental logic of machines conceals a void of meaning.' (4) Laughing man with enso

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Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
- Neil Diamond

'...and fear that the instrumental logic of machines conceals a void of meaning.' (3)

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As the images unwind ...

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from Saturday's Sport section : the dot

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'...and fear that the instrumental logic of machines conceals a void of meaning.' (2)

(Don Quixote and The Windmills Of Your Mind )

'...and fear that the instrumental logic of machines conceals a void of meaning.'

"The absence of the figure is conspicuous in Klippel's works. Looked at in this way, one can see some of the assemblages deliberately trying to avoid anything even indirectly anthropomorphic."

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The Economy as projection-$pace : regarding certain views and 'the value of value'

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"Firestorm sweeps world stockmarkets" : the headline on the front page of today's (Melbourne) Age.

Samuel Pepys diary entry, September 2 1666
"Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire: rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the Steele-yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City; and every thing, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even the very stones of churches, and among other things the poor steeple by which pretty Mrs.--------lives, and whereof my old school-fellow Elborough is parson, taken fire in the very top, an there burned till it fell down: I to White Hall (with a gentleman with me who desired to go off from the Tower, to see the fire, in my boat) ; to White Hall, and there up to the Kings closett in the Chappell, where people come about me, and did give them an account dismayed them all, and word was carried in to the King.

So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of Yorke what I saw, and that unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down nothing could stop the fire . . . "

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'Rudd's View on the Economy'
On ABC.Radio National's current affairs program P.M. a few nights back Mark Colvin introduced the item 'Rudd's view on the economy' with this progression of definitions :
"A crash happens when markets realise that assets are seriously overvalued, and brings them back down to earth.
A panic is a step on from that when markets no longer have any benchmark for what assets are worth, so they stop lending against them.
They no longer know the value of value and that means a period of chaos when no-one knows where the bottom of the slope is."

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"Get Me My Mighty Bucket, someone!"