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Old 10-26-2016, 08:33 PM   #40186 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff View Post
I went almost 5 days without power in January and felt no withdrawal symptoms of any sort (but I was still bored as **** since we were virtually trapped in our neighborhood). Grow a ****ing pair.
Last time a hurricane knocked out our power I came to hate the sterile, obnoxious light of incandescent bulbs. They are an aesthetically inferior light source to candles and gas lamps and it would be nice if those were not such an impractical alternative. Reading by the warm light of a gas lamp in the dead quiet of a powerless world was something I really grew to love.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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