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“Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.
(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)”
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(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)”
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“When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.”
― Maldoror and Poems
― Maldoror and Poems
“What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?”
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“In laying out gardens, pavilions, wandering paths, small mountains of stone, and flower paintings, try to give the feeling of the small in the large and the large in the small, of the real in the illusion, and of the illusion in reality. Some things should be hidden and some should be obvious, some prominent and some vague. Arranging a proper garden is not just a matter of setting out winding paths in a broad area with many rocks; thinking that it is will only waste time and energy.”
― Six Records of a Floating Life
― Six Records of a Floating Life
“Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.”
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Brain Pain
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— last activity Oct 10, 2023 09:29AM
NOTE: This group is intermittently active, but you are welcome to revive past discussions if you're currently reading any of those books. We read ch ...more
The BURIED Book Club
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— last activity Feb 27, 2026 06:22PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
21st Century Literature
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We read literary fiction from 2000 to present, with the intent of finding those literary gems of timeless and enduring quality. We're less focused o ...more
Black Coffee
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— last activity Apr 13, 2026 12:32AM
This group focuses on books written by or about black people from all continents in many different genres though we focus on historical fiction and cl ...more
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