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“On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires urging me to return home immediately; my father was "not at all well." God forgive me, but the prestige of being the recipient of an urgent telegram, the desire to communicate to all of Fray Bentos the contradiction between the negative form of the news and the absoluteness of the adverbial phrase, the temptation to dramatize my grief by feigning a virile stoicism-all this perhaps distracted me from any possibility of real pain.”
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“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
― Walden and Other Writings
― Walden and Other Writings
“The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.”
― Dangerous Laughter
― Dangerous Laughter
“We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us. Dad began dresssing the pole with more complexity and less discernible logic. He draped some kind of fur over it on Groundhog Day and lugged out a floodlight to ensure a shadow.”
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Caitlin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Caitlin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
368 books
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58 friends
7,296 books
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475 friends
565 books
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63 friends
439 books
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121 friends
478 books
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65 friends
40 books
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74 friends
729 books
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47 friends
565 books
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100 friends
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