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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
“Resist much, obey little.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.”
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“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
“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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