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Jan is Currently Reading

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Austerlitz

by W.G. Sebald

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Rejection

by Tony Tulathimutte (Goodreads Author)

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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

by Ben Goldacre

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Jan’s Notes & Highlights

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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the lens can function as a shield between you and the world, when the world’s just a little too much to bear. If you can’t stand to look at the world directly, maybe it’s possible to look at it through the viewfinder.

Cosmos

by Witold Gombrowicz

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Jan’s Quotes

“We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

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“You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.”
― Richard Powers, Orfeo

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“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas’d the moment life appear’d. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― Richard Powers, Orfeo

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