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“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information -- from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global.”
― The Disappearance of Childhood
― The Disappearance of Childhood
“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.”
― Letters to a Young Artist
― Letters to a Young Artist
“Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.”
― Letters to a Young Artist
― Letters to a Young Artist
“Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
Rini’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rini’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
297 books
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61 friends
617 books
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118 friends
298 books
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19 friends
1,101 books
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61 friends
1,285 books
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81 friends
1,670 books
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110 friends
236 books
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135 friends
138 books
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47 friends
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