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“They saw her moving
quietly back there
like a metaphysician in a novel”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
quietly back there
like a metaphysician in a novel”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“The sky is grey, the air hot.
I walk back across the mown lawn
loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart empty.”
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I walk back across the mown lawn
loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart empty.”
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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Erika’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erika’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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36 friends
266 books
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8 friends
89 books
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4 friends
583 books
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13 friends
270 books
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15 friends
118 books
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8 friends
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