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"I don’t know if this book is exactly “life changing,” but it does well as a sort of daily calendar with a Tao wisdom theme." — Apr 10, 2019 02:08PM
"I don’t know if this book is exactly “life changing,” but it does well as a sort of daily calendar with a Tao wisdom theme." — Apr 10, 2019 02:08PM
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"I remember now why I’ve been reading this so sparingly. As talented as Vollmann is, he really is the dark and eerily humorless version of Pynchon, and the imagery in this book is unapologetically grotesque and it comes as a constant bombardment on every single page. It’s like a bad acid trip that happens to be WWII themed and with obscure historical characters you have to Google, like Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya." — Jun 09, 2019 08:03PM
"I remember now why I’ve been reading this so sparingly. As talented as Vollmann is, he really is the dark and eerily humorless version of Pynchon, and the imagery in this book is unapologetically grotesque and it comes as a constant bombardment on every single page. It’s like a bad acid trip that happens to be WWII themed and with obscure historical characters you have to Google, like Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya." — Jun 09, 2019 08:03PM
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"y so angry bro
In earnest though, the period political references in this are way over my head. Would help if he didn’t only refer to historical figures on a first name basis. Open enrollment university courses on his Exile Trilogy when?" — Feb 10, 2020 03:09PM
"y so angry bro
In earnest though, the period political references in this are way over my head. Would help if he didn’t only refer to historical figures on a first name basis. Open enrollment university courses on his Exile Trilogy when?" — Feb 10, 2020 03:09PM


“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
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“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
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“Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.”
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“I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I wandered around, obsessed over my life dramas, stared into space, read books, wrote letters, made up songs, went crazy and eventually snapped out of my misery and noticed the dawn”
― Dawn
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