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CurioDAO

2021-10-30 · 748 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

CurioDAO — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entir
CurioDAO — pen and ink drawing

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"Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison." – Heinrich Heine, in "Lutetia; or, Paris". From the Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII (1842)

"There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse…

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