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Somebody would smuggle one in, but you didn’t know that person. You asked around, and somebody would give you a cassette: a copy of a copy of a copy.
—Metallica Fan in Bucharest on finding Metallica releases in the early 1980's
‘But,’ said the Empress, ‘there is some likeness between maggots and cheese, for cheese has no blood, nor maggots neither; besides, they have almost the same taste which cheese has.’ ‘This proves nothing,’ answered they, ‘for maggots have a visible, local, progressive motion which cheese hath not.’ The Empress replied that when all the cheese was turned into maggots it might be said to have local, progressive motion. They answered that when the cheese by its own figurative motions were changed into maggots it was no more cheese.
– Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)
