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Taro
is currently reading
by James Joyce
bookshelves:
currently-reading,
english,
oneironautic,
whatthehellisgoingon,
public-domain,
read-in-2011,
read-in-2012,
read-in-2013,
read-in-2014,
read-in-2015,
read-in-2017,
read-in-2018
progress:
(page 315 of 628)
"I wonder how much of this book is hapax legomena? "Bothallchoractorschumminariundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup!" (sic)" — Jan 09, 2018 09:25PM
"I wonder how much of this book is hapax legomena? "Bothallchoractorschumminariundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup!" (sic)" — Jan 09, 2018 09:25PM
Taro
is currently reading
bookshelves:
currently-reading,
read-in-2021,
read-in-2020,
english,
history,
mental-health,
mystery,
mythology,
non-fiction,
philosophy,
pseudo-non-fiction,
public-domain,
religion,
sexuality,
vengeance
progress:
(22%)
"Nobody likes to think of himself as immoral and heretical; but at the same time nobody likes to renounce a course of action dictated by powerful impulses, especially when these impulses are recognized as being in their nature good, as tending toward a higher and more abundant life. Hence all the curious literature of rationalization and justification[...]" — Jan 16, 2021 04:45PM
"Nobody likes to think of himself as immoral and heretical; but at the same time nobody likes to renounce a course of action dictated by powerful impulses, especially when these impulses are recognized as being in their nature good, as tending toward a higher and more abundant life. Hence all the curious literature of rationalization and justification[...]" — Jan 16, 2021 04:45PM
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
“He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters. ”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.”
― The Watch that Ends the Night
― The Watch that Ends the Night
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and what I am dreaming as I move and speak and eat my dinner. I remember what cannot have happened, and forget something that is happening to me know. People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
Taro’s 2025 Year in Books
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