Weight Machines

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“I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.... To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”
—Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)