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The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya

bookshelves: dystopian, fiction, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic, favorites, currently-reading

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read in August 2011

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Aug 12, 2011 08:45PM

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Journey into the Whirlwind

by Eugenia Ginzburg

bookshelves: history, biography-memoir, repressions, currently-reading

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Sasha’s Quotes

“I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”
― Nick Helm

tags: dark-humor, humor

49 likes

“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
― David L. Goodstein, States of Matter

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“If any human being, man, woman, dog, cat or half-crushed worm dares call me “middlebrow” I will take my pen and stab him, dead. Yours etc., Virginia Woolf.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: confidence, criticism, dark-humor, sarcasm

3 likes

“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: doctors, humor, medicine

88 likes

“We think of technological change as the fancy, new, expensive stuff. But the real change comes from last-decade stuff getting cheaper and faster.”
― CGP Grey

tags: change, future, science-fiction, technology

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