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Past-tense narration easily implies previous times and extends into the misty reaches of the subjunctive, the conditional, the future; but the pretense of a continuous eyewitness account admits little relativity of times, little connection
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One of the things I've learned this year from reading 10 books a month is that I won't get over my dislike of present tense in fiction any time soon.
“I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.”
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“Onions die quietly,
Cabbages shed no blood;
All plants forgive:
By the waters that comprise them
They wash man's hands
And let him walk away.”
― The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
Cabbages shed no blood;
All plants forgive:
By the waters that comprise them
They wash man's hands
And let him walk away.”
― The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
“Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.”
― The Obelisk Gate
― The Obelisk Gate
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
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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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Kathryn’s 2025 Year in Books
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