Issue 5: The New Puritans
Secular religion, Japanese skateboarders, our mounting suicide epidemic, and more.
Beautiful fact
When asked why he kept a lobster as a pet and walked it on a leash through the streets of Paris, the writer Gérard de Nerval answered: “Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? . . . They are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gobble up your monadic privacy like dog…
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