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| I thoroughly enjoyed this author’s Sleepwalkers, about how Europe stumbled into the First World War. So when I saw that he had written about the 1848 European revolutions, a subject that had interested me since covering it in a college course sixty y ...more | |
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849:
"Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring offers a staggering chronicle of 1848, the year in which Europe exploded into a massive, simultaneous upheaval against the established order. Clark provides a deep dive into the conditions which generated such"
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Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848-1849:
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Christopher Clark begins his new book Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848-9 on the 1848 Revolutions of Europe by stating he had no enthusiasm for this topic as a school boy, due to its complicated nature, huge scop" Read more of this review » |
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| I reread this because it was our latest book club selection. Many in the group focused on how many advances Huxley had foreseen—test-tube babies, sleep-learning, psychological conditioning, even music synthesizers. Yet Huxley himself, in an introduct ...more | |
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“In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses.
"About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life."
"Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output."
"Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.”
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"About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life."
"Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output."
"Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.”
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“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
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“But when shallI ever get round to doing the starry sky, that picture which is always on my mind?”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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