There was no end to the surprises of this search: things brayed to pieces as if with a pestle and mortar, things easily smashable untouched.

Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.

[A]nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so.

The first work, which shall be written in Latin or French, I shall style Nova Genera and Species Plantarum Boreali-Americanarum, and it shall contain accurate descriptions and histories of all the new genusses and species of plants discovered in the United States of America, and published since Linnæus, as well as of those which, though mentioned by that great author, were by him badly described, but more particularly of all new, and undescribed genusses and species I have found, or which have been communicated to me during my travels through the United States: of such new genusses it will contain about fourteen, besides the ten of my annexed essay, on the fungus tribe, to wit: /[…]