asciilifeform: '... ComradeOgilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact. It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. ComradeOgilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.'☟︎
asciilifeform: and single-mindedness of ComradeOgilvy's life. He was a total
asciilifeform: At the age of three ComradeOgilvy had refused all toys
asciilifeform: was no such person as ComradeOgilvy, but a few lines of print
asciilifeform: he should commemorate ComradeOgilvy. It was true that there
asciilifeform: as it were, the image of a certain ComradeOgilvy, who had