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Warren Ellis · 8 Sept 2026

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

Our reading
There is little point in not being ambitious.

Their wordsPossibly I was being ambitious, but there's little point in not being ambitious.
Our reading
Boredom is when the mind starts assembling ideas on its own.

Their wordssometimes boredom is when the backbrain starts assembling pieces of things to amuse itself.

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