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2026-07-16 02:29 UTC
In 1517, the Spanish missionary Bartolomé de las Casas, taking great pity on the Indians who were languishing in the hellish workpits of Antillean gold mines, suggested to Charles V, king of Spain, a scheme for importing blacks, so that they might languish in the hellish workpits of Antillean gold mines. - Borges
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@sunumbral@beige.party 2026-07-16 02:50
Finally. In the vast library that is a city every street is a different book. Some are like "see Jane run " primers, safe and sane; they start from an expected place and end up somewhere equally predictable. But others are as weird as Herman Melville's Pierre or Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. They may begin in a swanky neighborhood and end up in squalor, or go from being a soulless arterial to a dirt lane. - Kamiya/Madonna