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Calico is Currently Reading

Calico is currently reading

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

by David Mitchell

bookshelves: contemporary-fiction, currently-reading

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Calico said: " I purchased the paperback last November but aborted my first attempt at reading it. My extended family lost a young child to an accidental death in October, and my wife was eight months pregnant in November, at the time of the purchase. Given my fami ...more "

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"I woke last night suspecting Mitchell was sculpting a muse, black hair, porcelain skin like ink on paper, an author and a he rat, a muse and a she rat, a bridge." — Nov 13, 2014 06:33PM

Oct 22, 2014 07:53PM · see review

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Gravity’s Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

bookshelves: currently-reading, modern-fiction

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"Watched a late episode of Band of Brothers, which reminded me of banana breakfast. I really liked the writing and subject matter, and should actually take time to finish this one. But do I put down Thousand Autumns?" — Nov 04, 2014 07:22AM

Oct 07, 2010 02:51PM

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Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

by Richard W. Wrangham

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""At all levels, not just in the highschools, novels, short stories, and poems have for years been taught not as experiences that can delight and enliven the soul but as things that are good for us, like vitamin C."" — May 08, 2014 02:59PM

Nov 21, 2010 12:15PM

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Calico’s Quotes

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin

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“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
― Walt Disney

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“the one Word that rips apart the day...”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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