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"The last paragraph on page 13 begins, You don’t need to worry about remembering all these names just yet—we’ll look at them in more detail later.
I had to laugh but I am enraptured" — Aug 01, 2026 05:21AM
"The last paragraph on page 13 begins, You don’t need to worry about remembering all these names just yet—we’ll look at them in more detail later.
I had to laugh but I am enraptured" — Aug 01, 2026 05:21AM
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"Are we supposed to sing as we fall into the mass graves?" — Jul 09, 2026 02:36AM
"Are we supposed to sing as we fall into the mass graves?" — Jul 09, 2026 02:36AM
“The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.”
― Mardi and a Voyage Thither
― Mardi and a Voyage Thither
“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”
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“She has no interest in the composition from ten or twenty feet—that will come later. What she wants is topography, the impasto, the furrows where sable hairs were dragged into tiny painted crests to catch the light. Or the stray line of charcoal or chalk, glimpsed beneath a glaze that’s three hundred years old. She’s been known to take a safety pin and test the porosity of the paint and then bring the point to her tongue. Since old-world grounds contain gesso, glue, and something edible—honey, milk, cheese—the Golden Age has a distinctively sweet or curdled taste. She is always careful to avoid the leads and the cobalts. What”
― The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
― The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
The Kindred Spirits
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On Paths Unknown
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— last activity Jul 29, 2026 09:28AM
"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
Completists' Club
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— last activity Mar 25, 2026 12:59PM
A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more
Foucault's Pendulum
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— last activity Nov 13, 2021 03:31AM
We're starting off by reading Umberto Eco's novel, Foucalt's Pendulum--and who knows where that might lead us? ...more
The Short Story Club
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We read and discuss one short story a week. Authors are welcome, but it's not a group to promote one's own work. The first post of each week's discus ...more
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