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Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
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My Heart Forgets To Beat
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war's the pity
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2 lefts don't make a right
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propaganda porpoises
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unromantic ballads
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less romantic ballads
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rheumatic ballads
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camp reluctance
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Letters to Peace
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Electric cars, phooey! Just not buyingthis shit. If a full sized car is going to be electric, let it have four wheelsdrive as standard. Four WHEELS drive, not wheel? Yes, no central motor, or evenone unit per axel. Each wheel hub should constitute its own armature. A wheeldoesn’t NEED a motor when it IS one. Any electric car that even looks like it’spretending to be an internal combustion d
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Ronnie Goes To Hollywood Were it by the conceit of taking the younger Douglas Fairbanks out of the senior that we would come to this singular Ronald Firbank (the “a” subtracted along with “Arthur” – their other given name - as soon as they began publi ...more |
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"Odd odd odd. Early 20th-Century high camp written by an acolyte of Oscar Wilde & his aestheticising coterie. Punch-drunk on the Kool Aid.
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"The Introduction says fame avoided Ronald Firbank because he was gay and had associated with Oscar Wilde before the latter was dead and famous.
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"Wanted to like this--wanted to love this--but I stopped reading after a mere 30 pages or so. It's impossible. It's not even that tastes have changed (I'm sure tastes have changed since Dickens wrote, and he's still a master) as that I've adapted to h"
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| Now that the Ba’atist regime in Syria has just fallen (I’m getting this down on December 11th, 2024), it seems appropriate to have reached the final pages of Christopher Hitchens's “Arguably” - a collection of essays and reviews written in the rough ...more | |
“When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.”
― On the Road
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