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“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to have the claim jumped by evildoers ...more
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"where the American fate, mercifully, failed to transpire..." Man, that hits hard right about now.
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Yes, the book's whole Free Love vs Corporate Square vibe has an extra dimension of sorrow in light of current events.
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Pynchon is the great master of examining and detailing the road not taken. The opportunity not seen that led to a better path. Against the Day seems much about this as anything else. An existential "W…
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
“Let me advise you to commence at once observing for yourself.
Don't trust what you are told in lectures, or read in books, but make the knowledge your own, by your own labors.
Lectures and books will serve as guides and beacons, but the goals can only be reached by travelling the road yourself.”
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

Seneca
“Just as with storytelling, so with life: it's important how well it is done, not how long.”
Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

John Berryman
“You come in all clammed up, defences in depth, alibi-systems long established, delusions full-blown. In order to have a chance of staying sober, or rather of staying dry and becoming sober, you've got to change. Nobody likes to change. What you really want, when you come into hospital, even for the second or third or ninth time, is to stay just who you are and not drink. That's not possible, of course. Jack-Who-Drinks has got to alter into Jack-Who-Does-Not-Drink-And-Likes-It.”
John Berryman, Recovery

Seneca
“It's not years nor days, but the mind, that determines that we've lived enough.”
Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
“Place no dependence on your own genius, even if you possess it. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate talents, industry will supply their deficiency--nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is obtained without it.”
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

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