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Bang Bang Bodhisattva

by Aubrey Wood (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: cyberpunk, science-fiction, currently-reading

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Ross’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir

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Adam of Eynsham, the biographer of St. Hugh of Lincoln, testifies to the King holding truly devout men in high regard, and Walter Map tells of him tactfully averting his eyes and making no comment when a monk’s habit blew up and exposed his ...more

How the States Got Their Shapes

by Mark Stein

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Ross’s Quotes

“This was a wonderfully surreal moment: the real Montagu addressing his fictional persona, in a work of filmic fiction, based on reality, which had originated in fiction.”
― Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

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“the illness of a good child is so far less trying than the sinfulness of one’s sons – like your two elder brothers. Oh! Then one feels that death in purity is so far preferable to life in sin and degradation!”
― Charlotte Zeepvat, Queen Victoria's Youngest Son: The Untold Story of Prince Leopold

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“In reality, France's American territory extended to the west as far as a Frenchman could go without getting shot by a Spaniard, and likewise to the north without getting shot by an Englishman.”
― Mark Stein, How the States Got Their Shapes

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“Superman and Batman got their start, we think, during the twenty-fourth century. Except for a brief period during the Dark Age, they’ve never gone away.”
― Jack McDevitt, Coming Home

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“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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