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Sarah Vowell
“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
Sarah Vowell

Robert  Burton
“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Richard Dawkins
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Theodor W. Adorno
“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
Theodor Adorno

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

97302 The BURIED Book Club — 924 members — last activity Oct 09, 2025 06:06PM
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58827 Brain Pain — 1249 members — last activity Oct 10, 2023 09:29AM
NOTE: This group is intermittently active, but you are welcome to revive past discussions if you're currently reading any of those books. We read ch ...more
124430 Finnegans Wake Grappa — 140 members — last activity Apr 03, 2019 02:58PM
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15807 Queereaders — 20542 members — last activity 3 hours, 37 min ago
A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and supporters interested in fun and stimulating conversation about books, movies, art, ...more
154805 On Paths Unknown — 470 members — last activity Nov 18, 2025 11:58AM
"On paths unknown, we tread with wonder. Through a glass darkly, to brave new worlds and beyond we go." We seek to explore and do critical reading fro ...more
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