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Exile and the Kingdom

by Albert Camus

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""She felt only Marcel's warmth." (21)

What a curious reading of this sentence. Only physical warmth of a man's body due to homeostatic endothermy, not emotional warmth. She feels from him only the purest facilities of his body without the connection to his heart nor true concern for *her*.

Really fun book club so far. I learn that this is the best way to connect with my college friends !!" — 19 hours, 3 min ago

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The Hole

by Hye-Young Pyun

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Baldwin: A Love Story

by Nicholas Boggs

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Athena’s Quotes

“The violence of positivity does not deprive, it saturates; it does not exclude, it exhausts.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

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“Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

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