a definition of ruin from herbert gibbons description of the towns he visited on the coast of europes mediterranean riviera. the entire book can be read online or downloaded for free at the archive.org.
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''and now there is the internet: this is a pulpit for what anybody says, which gives pig ignorants their best occasion to foul our wells with extra information.'' alessandro gallenzi, ars poetastrica. ( j.g.nichols translation).
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a connotation
original: first, primal, genuine.
vanity: emptiness, waning.
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