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Ross is Currently Reading

Ross is currently reading

In the Shadow of the Machine: The Prehistory of the Computer and the Evolution of Consciousness

by Jeremy Naydler

bookshelves: currently-reading, history, philosophy, woo

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Sep 19, 2026 08:15AM

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China's Great Road

by John M. Ross

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Jul 27, 2026 09:43PM

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USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal

by Daniel Lake (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 12, 2026 09:30PM

Ross’s Notes & Highlights

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

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The tech sector tanks, a few companies happen to survive, awesome. But a lot more didn’t, and the biggest winners were men blessed with that ol’ Wall Street stupidity, which in the end is unbeatable.”

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Ross’s Quotes

“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
― Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, Valis

tags: qotd

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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

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