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"they used to release sitcoms on paper and called em books. ground zero for leave it to beaver-type troublemaking and sentimentality.
very apparent from the prose that he was a reporter, lol. the audiobook really drives it home, how it sounds like an old timey radio play.
some really masterful prose, but unfortunately it’s all in service of mostly low stakes hijinks. looking forward to huck finn." — 8 hours, 22 min ago
"they used to release sitcoms on paper and called em books. ground zero for leave it to beaver-type troublemaking and sentimentality.
very apparent from the prose that he was a reporter, lol. the audiobook really drives it home, how it sounds like an old timey radio play.
some really masterful prose, but unfortunately it’s all in service of mostly low stakes hijinks. looking forward to huck finn." — 8 hours, 22 min ago
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”
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“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
― The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
― The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture
― Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture
jay’s 2025 Year in Books
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