Christopher McMahon

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Virgil
“The descent into Hell is easy”
Virgil, The Aeneid

Reza Aslan
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Slavoj Žižek
“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
Slavoj Žižek

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“All was forgiven.

All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.”
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

Edward W. Said
“Texts are not finished objects.”
Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

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James
652 books | 72 friends

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543 books | 44 friends

Stuart ...
84 books | 41 friends

Lauren
64 books | 10 friends

Jamie
301 books | 12 friends

Peter
308 books | 44 friends

Rachel ...
166 books | 2 friends

Catheri...
1,716 books | 47 friends

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