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"So far so very entertaining. I'm finally getting to grips with this part of history, and enjoying Nell Gwyn's one-liners and nicknames - 'Dismal Jimmy' (James II) so far being the favourite." — Sep 24, 2015 02:40AM
"So far so very entertaining. I'm finally getting to grips with this part of history, and enjoying Nell Gwyn's one-liners and nicknames - 'Dismal Jimmy' (James II) so far being the favourite." — Sep 24, 2015 02:40AM
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"'Roman civilisation in Britannia was effectively limited to what is today southern England.' (p.6) - basically along the Jurassic divide that splits England in two, and also, coincidentally, along the line of those tribes that minted coins and those that didn't. Hawes traces the physical and symbolic North/South divide in England back to pre-Roman times, and argues that England's lack of identity arises from this." — Jan 08, 2022 06:37AM
"'Roman civilisation in Britannia was effectively limited to what is today southern England.' (p.6) - basically along the Jurassic divide that splits England in two, and also, coincidentally, along the line of those tribes that minted coins and those that didn't. Hawes traces the physical and symbolic North/South divide in England back to pre-Roman times, and argues that England's lack of identity arises from this." — Jan 08, 2022 06:37AM
There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into Somewhere Else.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”
― The Black Hole of Auschwitz
― The Black Hole of Auschwitz
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
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“Willful victims are dull, it's as if they can't wait to die.”
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Alice in Wonderland
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Alice in Wonderland
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