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they resist the ravages of memory and time

and quiet dignity

and prepare for war

Her mom is the flavor of mint--sharp and bright

nestled like pages in a book

The Waste Books Featured they resist the ravages ofGerman scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society,