📫 Palimpsest & Shakespear – Weekend Words #044

It’s Saturday, so here are your weekend words: palimpsest and Shakespeare.

“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.”

— George Orwell, 1984

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“Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk and William Shakespeare was a stoner? Or how about the fact that Steve Jobs believed taking LSD helped him create the Apple computer, or that Sigmund Freud loved cocaine so much he took it all the time and prescribed it to his patients?”

— Sam Kelly, Human History on Drugs

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