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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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"From the story he told me, I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw more and more often roaming about Europe: false monks, financial analysts, charlatans, swindlers, property salesmen, cheats, tramps and tatterdemalions, jugglers, invalid mercenaries, lunatics, fugitives under banishment, malefactors with the ears cut off, sodomites, and along with them ambulant artisans, weavers, tinkers, chair-menders, knife-grinders, basket-weavers, masons, and also rogues of every stripe, forgers, scoundrels, cardsharps, rascals, bullies, reprobates, recreants, frauds, hooligans ...."
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Marlow:
Please give source, citation, author for above quote.
Sounds like it resides within a larger work well worth reading.
Thanks.
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perswig
climber
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^^
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.
Arguably one of his most accessible novels; Marlow's quote I think is actually just a partial (edit: 'course it is, hence the ellipse, duh!). There are some amazing lists throughout the book.
Dale
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Aug 17, 2017 - 03:23pm PT
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Love conquers all!
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AidanPunts
Sport climber
Victoria, BC
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Aug 17, 2017 - 04:11pm PT
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"that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins"
-Bertrand Russell
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 17, 2017 - 04:15pm PT
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Hard to conjecture the debris of a Universe. In ruins, no less.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Aug 18, 2017 - 02:14am PT
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Shoot low, they're riding Shetlands! --Traditional
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Aug 18, 2017 - 06:18pm PT
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Yet more politard threads will spring up on the Taco Stand.
-madbolter1
Lol
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Mad69Dog
Ice climber
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Aug 19, 2017 - 09:57am PT
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I climb as hard as anyone on earth
I just do it on easier routes
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 21, 2017 - 11:22am PT
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The best thing to say, when you have nothing to say, is to say nothing at all... Pardon me...
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Aug 24, 2017 - 04:48pm PT
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:05pm PT
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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:25pm PT
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"We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm." Winston Churchill
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:30pm PT
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"The person having the most fun is climbing." Anonymous.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:46pm PT
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"The person having the most fun is bowling." - The Big Lebowski
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 18, 2017 - 06:24pm PT
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"You know, she is a virgin, she just doesn't give a f*#k"
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Sep 18, 2017 - 07:03pm PT
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Sometimes you have to toss the tea into the harbor.
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Lennox
climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
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Sep 19, 2017 - 10:14pm PT
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Rocket man is on a suicide mission . . .
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 20, 2017 - 06:50am PT
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 20, 2017 - 07:11am PT
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