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I'm Ðe-Alchmst and welcome to my humble shack, currently squatting at ctrl-c.club. I am just your local nerd doing stuff no one asked for and then trying to write about it in poor dialect of English.

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the day:

fortune of the day:

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a

creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely

a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the

bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact

that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth

to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the

very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more

afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by

an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam

as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and

put him at the head of the procession.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

fellow clubsmate of the day:

color of the day: #4D7056

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