https://www.isegoria.net/2023/08/he-was-president-of-the-society-for-the-suppression-of-useless-knowledge-and-for-the-completer-obliteration-of-the-past/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2023/08/he-was-president-of-the-society-for-the-suppression-of-useless-knowledge-and-for-the-completer-obliteration-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-3619555 Bruce Mon, 28 Aug 2023 00:53:46 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50385#comment-3619555 Butler’s ‘Notebooks’ were more fun for me to read than his novels. I’d like to read a Norton Annotated version of the copy of Butler’s ‘Notebooks’ Suzuki used to more or less revise Buddhism. It’s in Illinois in the house Suzuki lived in.

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