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VINCENT D. PISANO is an educator and compulsive writer living in New England.

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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

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William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West takes a sweeping view of the Windy City and its hinterlands in the nineteenth century, when Chicago grew with surprising rapidity to become one of the most populous and powerful urban centers in the nation. However, Cronon’s goal is not to tel Read more of this blog post »

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It's Only Paper: An Unlikely Anthology
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)

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Vincent’s Quotes

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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