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Craig Bellamy
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At that time England was a relatively impoverished, largely agricultural country, which had spent almost a century at war with itself over the most divisive subject of the time: religion.8 In the course of this, in what seemed to many of
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“Kitsch and tourism are inseparable partners. Perhaps it is because, by definition, both are inauthentic.”
― The Bush
― The Bush
“In other words, by 2100, the entire planet could look like Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, at least in terms of capital intensity.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“From Kathmandu there is a road through Gorkha Country to Pokhara, in the central foothills; farther west, no roads exist at all. The road winds through steep gorges of the Trisuli River, now in torrent; dirty whitecaps filled the rapids, and the brown flood was thickened every now and again by thunderous rockslides down the walls of the ravine.”
― The Snow Leopard
― The Snow Leopard
“The prolonged solitary exposure to the bush that makes some people odd or crazy might in others bring the active and contemplative life into perfect harmony or grace.”
― The Bush
― The Bush
“Once in their youth the light shone for them; they saw the light and followed the star, but then came reason and the mockery of the world; then came faint-heartedness and apparent failure; then came weariness and disillusionment, and so they lost their way again, they became blind again.”
― The Journey to the East: A Novel
― The Journey to the East: A Novel
Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
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