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"Re-read the Agamemnon, which is perhaps my favorite of all the Greek plays. Like most of the best authors of antiquity, Aeschylus produces compelling and timeless drama. Once Cassandra arrives, the whole play builds to a roiling boil which is marvelous to read." — May 19, 2026 12:35PM
"Re-read the Agamemnon, which is perhaps my favorite of all the Greek plays. Like most of the best authors of antiquity, Aeschylus produces compelling and timeless drama. Once Cassandra arrives, the whole play builds to a roiling boil which is marvelous to read." — May 19, 2026 12:35PM
“Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.”
― Pereira Maintains
― Pereira Maintains
“The theater was pitch black, save for the column of rotating light emanating from the hole in the projection room to create an illusory world”
― The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
― The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
“Each of our friends has his defects so markedly that to continue to love him we are obliged to seek consolation for those defects -- in the thought of his talent, his goodness, his affection for ourself -- or rather to leave them out of account, and for that we need to display all our good will. Unfortunately our obliging obstinacy in refusing to see the defect in our friend is surpassed by the obstinacy with which he persists in that defect, from his own blindness to it or the blindness that he attributes to other people. For he does not notice it himself, or imagines that it is not noticed.”
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“A piece of newspaper had stuck to a bun, and gravely he peeled it away; the ink had transferred to the bun, and the writing was in reverse, as in a mirror. He pored over the words till he could make them out: "Obituaries... Positions Wanted... Stock Market Developments ...Now Playing..."—all normal, useful expressions, though funny, somehow, seen on a bun. Eating, it seems, is serious business; it turns everything else, by way of contrast, into a joke.”
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“The tramcar would have gone on forever, if the city hadn't been shut down. It was. The streets were sealed off. "Ding-dingding-ding" rang the bell. Each "ding" was a small, cold dot: dot after dot, they formed a line that cut through space and time.”
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