“It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.”
― Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
― Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
“As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
Sensation Novels
— 3 members
— last activity Apr 07, 2013 11:07PM
A place to discuss and recommend the great sensation novels of the 1860s and 70s.
Literary journalism / creative nonfiction
— 161 members
— last activity Oct 30, 2016 06:00AM
An open group for discussion of any work that can be considered literary journalism, creative nonfiction, narrative journalism, docufiction...in short ...more
Workplace Democracy Reading Group
— 29 members
— last activity Oct 01, 2022 01:20PM
Reading group on the relationship between worker cooperatives and unions as both means of creating workplace democracy
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