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“When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in cedar trees smells. It has to set at least six hours, and be drunk from a gourd. Water should never be drunk from metal.
And at night it is better still. I used to lie on the pallet in the hall, waiting until I could hear them all asleep, so I could get up and go back to the bucket. It would be black, the shelf black, the still surface of the water a round orifice in nothingness, where before I stirred it awake with the dipper I could see maybe a star or two in the bucket, and maybe in the dipper a star or two before I drank,”
― As I Lay Dying
And at night it is better still. I used to lie on the pallet in the hall, waiting until I could hear them all asleep, so I could get up and go back to the bucket. It would be black, the shelf black, the still surface of the water a round orifice in nothingness, where before I stirred it awake with the dipper I could see maybe a star or two in the bucket, and maybe in the dipper a star or two before I drank,”
― As I Lay Dying
“Avid TV viewers are more likely than others to believe their neighborhoods are unsafe, assume that crime rates are rising, and overestimate their odds of becoming a victim, and they are more likely to own guns.”
― Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love
― Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love
Jim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
776 books
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60 friends
684 books
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195 friends
2 books
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18 friends
3 books
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55 friends
292 books
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220 friends
272 books
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3 friends
0 books
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252 friends
1 book
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103 friends
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