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Harlan Ellison, as attributed in Paul Krassner, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture (1993), fore-matter in the 2012 Soft Skull Press edition
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The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald — and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.

— Harlan Ellison

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald — and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass." in the context of "Harlan Ellison, as attributed in Paul Krassner, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture (1993), fore-matter in the 2012 Soft Skull Press edition" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Giordano Bruno

About Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian universalist pantheist monist philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet, who, following an Inquisition for heresy and the denial of several Catholic doctrines, was burned at the stake in Rome, 1600; born Filippo Bruno, in Nola, Italy, he often called himself Il Nolano (The Nolan).