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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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— Jan 22, 2015 03:12PM

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“The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf...”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

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“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

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Reading works by and about Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels.

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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

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Ruining your favorite books by analyzing them from a feminist perspective. (In all seriousness, we welcome diverse opinions and are just looking for ...more