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Ramyata Purab
https://www.goodreads.com/ramyatapurab
People shape and stage the experiences of their lives for the camera, go on vacations with one eye glued to the video camera. The desire to freeze reality is about avoiding reality.
“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“Bakul did always bore her: it was his smoothness of manner; there was no roughness that could catch the interest, snag it.”
― Clear Light of Day
― Clear Light of Day
“To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.”
― Kitchen
― Kitchen
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
Greek and Roman Mythology
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We read classical Greek and Roman texts as well as modern novels/poetry based off of Greek and Roman mythology!
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