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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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I’d visit Orwell’s Animal Farm, hand out tiny mirrors, and ask the pigs how they sleep at night.
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| Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock is not merely a thriller. It is a plunge into the abyss of human desperation, a razor-edged dance between damnation and redemption, set against the garish, deceptive glow of a seaside resort. Published in 1938, the novel ...more | |
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A Monument to Memory Henry Roth's "Call it Sleep" stands as one of the most profound achievements in American literature. This work transforms the specificity of early 20th-century Jewish immigrant experience into something approaching the universal w ...more |
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“The war for human consciousness had become a battle fought in the spaces between thoughts, where the difference between freedom and slavery was measured in neurotransmitter levels and synaptic modifications too subtle to detect.”
― Animal Control
― Animal Control
“The desperate urgency to preserve human consciousness at any cost had been replaced by a more pragmatic understanding of the situation that prioritized practical outcomes over abstract principles.”
― Animal Control
― Animal Control
“Think about it from their perspective. Permanent genetic modifications would create autonomous populations that might eventually challenge their authority or develop independence. But modifications that require periodic renewal ensure ongoing dependency and control.”
― Animal Control
― Animal Control
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