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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Jonathan D. Clark
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in Redding, CA, The United States
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Nietzsche, Sartre, Dostoevsky, Philip K. Dick, James Joyce, Thomas Pyn
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"An excellent book. Duffy's sentences delight, and the tale - about a young man that falls into a self-destructive scene that's maybe all too familiar for many of us - is compelling, all the more because of its adept portrayal of a time not long ago -"
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“We wake up every morning thinking that the day we're about to live is going to be one kind of way. Like the days before it. One to shuffle in with all the rest. When we look back at our lives and all the things that we've done, there's a sad realization hat most days are entirely wiped from our memories. We know those days must have happened or else we wouldn't be where we are, but the substance of them is gone. Of a lifetime of conversations, only the sentiments remain. Specificity eroded down to a nub of ambiguity. On inspection, whole years are nothing but a vague sense built out of the moments that lasted. The moments that made a deeper imprint. Occasionally, the truly spectacular, but more often, the deeply embarrassing. The tragic. Then without realizing we invent material to fill the gaps. Words never said and actions never taken to add flourish or valor or meaning where likely there was none. Even my two years working at Saladas. Most of it is gone. Washed away by the repetiti
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“No one here ever asks what I plan to do with my life. They only ever ask what I plan to do tonight.”
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“I’ve decided I want to live a life of letters, because letters never fade away. They’ve stood the test of time for several millennia. And here we are, still using them—even as we speak.”
― False Cathedrals
― False Cathedrals
“He wished he could go back. But unfortunately, he knew it to be an impossibility—that time could only travel forward and the simplicity of his childhood would remain lost to the past.”
― As Ithaca Lay Forgotten
― As Ithaca Lay Forgotten
“I’ve decided I want to live a life of letters, because letters never fade away. They’ve stood the test of time for several millennia. And here we are, still using them—even as we speak.”
― False Cathedrals
― False Cathedrals
“Quiet are the moments of honest reflection. Seldom do they come with enough time to appreciate what might lie under the surface, awaiting discovery—if anything should be found at all.”
― False Cathedrals
― False Cathedrals
“We create our own narrative: every typo, every misquoted phrase and poorly thought out abbreviation dictating the arrhythmic flow of each meaningless sentence of our lives.”
― False Cathedrals
― False Cathedrals
“During the dark, inactive hours of twilight, everything appeared uninhabited and without a soul; forgotten.”
― False Cathedrals
― False Cathedrals
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