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2023. First read in a library hardback in early 2024, then re-read in this library Kindle edition in August and September 2024 to discuss with Geeks Read on 9/3/24. The author is, as always (I read Fuzzy National and The Kaiju Preservation Society with enjoyment and admiration), assured, imaginative, fun-loving, and has many likable characters (both human and non-human).
The narrator is wonderful - insouciant, focused, chatty, humorous, culturally with it (Steve Jobs’ cancer, big banks buying small banks,
With a wise and witty aide-de-camp and puppet-master Mathilda Morrison, see her introduction to the narrator, chs. 2&3, pp. 19-30.
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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
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