Quanto più su l'instabil ruota vedi
Di Fortuna ire in alto il miser uomo,
Tanto più tosto hai da vedergli i piedi
Ove ora ha il capo, e far cadendo il tomo.
Canto XLV, stanza 1 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Shortly after pithecanthropus erectus gained the ascendancy, he turned his attention to the higher-order abstractions.”
Source: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (Revised Edition) 1977, Chapter One, Kubeiagenesis, p. 1
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