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"Ch. 5: this has morphed into a low-key funny satire of academics/academia" — May 25, 2026 09:22AM
"Ch. 5: this has morphed into a low-key funny satire of academics/academia" — May 25, 2026 09:22AM
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Both were tall and thin and blessed with flowing and lustrous blond hair. “They look like a shampoo advertisement,” Izzy observed. “For Nazis.”"
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"Yikes. I don't know if I can with this. It reads like it was written by a 22 year old." — May 18, 2026 10:24AM
"Yikes. I don't know if I can with this. It reads like it was written by a 22 year old." — May 18, 2026 10:24AM
they wouldn’t have invited a banshee to sing as a prelude to a boxing match if all she could do was make everyone feel sad. As her unearthly voice climbs to a piercing high, he grits his teeth, unsure what to expect. She soars over the
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“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
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