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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

by Cormac McCarthy

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read in September 2015

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Brian Bess said: " Nasty, brutish and short

'Blood Meridian' is probably one of the most violent novels ever written. It contains more bloodshedding per page than almost any other book I have read. Harsh lives in harsh, unforgiving landscapes are the subject matter that ...more "

Sep 06, 2015 04:23PM · see review

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White Noise by Don DeLillo

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I am chairman of the department of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. I invented Hitler studies in North America in March of 1968. It was a cold bright

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

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Brian Bess’s Quotes

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: choice, freedom, freedom-of-choice, hebrew, language, timshel

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