Tim Martin

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Curfew

by Phil Rickman

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Nov 25, 2025 01:43PM

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A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians

by Harry Pearson

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Nov 25, 2025 01:41PM

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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)

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“Remember the fairy tales, all the witches and wizards with their houses in the woods. Maybe they want privacy for their work. Maybe there is something about the places they choose to live. Maybe the world is thinner there. Maybe they can hear the sounds they are listening for more clearly.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

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“On average, grasses produce three or four times more roots by weight than they do leaves and stems, giving them a root-to-shoot ratio that is ten times as high as that of a forest.”
― Candace Savage, Prairie: A Natural History of the Heart of North America

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“the animal had died tortured by anxious hopes of salvation, imagining it could still escape when it was already caught, just like so many human beings.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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“A youth can allow itself to be somewhat pleasant with us, since it's so convinced, that it's gonna be free the day after our funeral.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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“But you know better than I, Prince, that even fixed stars are so only in appearance.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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