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Beth Mclaughlin
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Something that should be there was appealing to the nonvalidity of absence.
“Tomohiko Amada’s Killing Commendatore might be seen as one such “unknown vista.” Like a great poem, the painting was a perfect metaphor, one that launched a new reality into the world.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
“By today’s sensibilities, it’s more than a little macabre that a great moral movement would adopt as its symbol a graphic representation of a revolting means of torture and execution.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“shibboleths”
― Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
― Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
“Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“In The Invention of Literature (1999), the classical scholar Florence Dupont reminds us that many of the greatest works of human imagination were created to be performed, to be heard. Before the printing press and mass literacy, the written versions existed as blueprints or records of performances, recitals, speeches, songs, and other forms of oral communication. Voicing was an art of living creators, and the voice of the storyteller was”
― Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
― Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Ebooks, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Thriller, and War
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