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Jamey’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jamey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sophocles' Three Theban Plays
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Franchir le Rubicon : le déclin de l'empire américain à la fin de l'âge du pétrole. Tome 2
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Limousine, Midnight Blue
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Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament
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Bloom's How to Write About Homer
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Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989-2019
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The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts
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Its subject is the same as what this blog has been covering since 2008: literature, philosophy, and the search for wisdom, with reviews of books and theater among my most common topics.Thanks for all the good times we've had here at Poetry, Politics, Collapse for the past 17 years.
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“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998)
It is as obvious to my left brain that there is no God, as it is obvious to my right brain that the living God is all there is. (2018)”
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It is as obvious to my left brain that there is no God, as it is obvious to my right brain that the living God is all there is. (2018)”
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“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998)
It is as obvious to my left brain that there is no God, as it is obvious to my right brain that the living God is all there is. (2018)”
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It is as obvious to my left brain that there is no God, as it is obvious to my right brain that the living God is all there is. (2018)”
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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
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“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
― Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
― Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
“Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
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You are fucking brilliant, Jamey. I'm honored to know you.
Best wishes from Majenta