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"Finally finally FINALLY past the halfway point with this series. Book 6 was funnily both the most and least interesting entry so far, in opposite ways from book 5. Review to come. I’m hoping I can finish this monolith by the end of the year, but no promises." — Feb 03, 2022 08:26PM
"Finally finally FINALLY past the halfway point with this series. Book 6 was funnily both the most and least interesting entry so far, in opposite ways from book 5. Review to come. I’m hoping I can finish this monolith by the end of the year, but no promises." — Feb 03, 2022 08:26PM
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Once, George and Rick had been friends, or at least friendly. In second grade, there had been a class checkers tournament, and George and Rick had been the two best players. The final match of the competition had been close, with Rick
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I just enjoy the writing here. The feeling of two friends growing apart is well-captured, and the final line brings it home.


“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
― The Gulag Archipelago
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.
Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
― The Gulag Archipelago

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