Myriads

Myriads of false messiahs, quacks, and leaders of cults and thought-reform groups have emerged who use Orwellian mind-manipulation techniques.

Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing 2009

Peripatetic traveler John Ross Browne luridly described the ongoing and quite literal rape of the land: “Myriads of swarthy, bearded, dust-covered men are piercing into the grim old mountains, ripping them open, thrusting murderous holes through their naked bodies; piling up engines to cut their vital arteries; stamping and crushing up with infernal machines their disemboweled fragments, and holding fiendish revels amid the chaos of destruction.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Peripatetic traveler John Ross Browne luridly described the ongoing and quite literal rape of the land: “Myriads of swarthy, bearded, dust-covered men are piercing into the grim old mountains, ripping them open, thrusting murderous holes through their naked bodies; piling up engines to cut their vital arteries; stamping and crushing up with infernal machines their disemboweled fragments, and holding fiendish revels amid the chaos of destruction.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

But O how fall'n! how chang'd/From him, who in the happy Realms of Light/Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst outshine/Myriads though bright.

Matthew DeBord: Tiger Woods Is So, So, So Much Bigger Than Golf 2009

Myriads of types of kunafe, aish el saraya, shaaibiat, baklava muhallabia, othmallia, halawet el jibn, and on and on it goes until I stop paying attention.

Umm Ali (Egyptian Bread Pudding) Mercedes 2009

Myriads of types of kunafe, aish el saraya, shaaibiat, baklava muhallabia, othmallia, halawet el jibn, and on and on it goes until I stop paying attention.

Archive 2009-06-01 Mercedes 2009

“Myriads are taking holiday or staying from work because of that, quite apart from the labourers who refuse to go back,” said Asano.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

Myriads, countless myriads, toil from the cradle to the grave.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

Myriads of the same Iraqis who enabled the Maliki regime to assume power with their vote are to be surrounded and held hostage by our lethal forces who are, perhaps, necessarily more concerned with their own safety than with the well-being of the residents who are forced to live at the business end of their guns, tanks, and warplanes.

Cranking Up The Occupation 2006

Myriads of flying fish and a few dolphins and Portuguese men-of-war flash or float through the scarcely undulating water.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004