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Alex is Currently Reading

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Fear of Black Consciousness

by Lewis R. Gordon

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May 23, 2026 04:43AM

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

by Rosalind Miles

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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

by Richard Hofstadter

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How on earth could she be so self-centered? I stared at her lowered eyes, her expression of cool self-possession. The very idea that there should be this other side to her, one where she selfishly did as she pleased, was astonishing. Who ...more

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“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
― Milan Kundera

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“even put a few Astrophage in a radiation-containment vessel and exposed it to the gamma rays emitted by Cesium-137 (this lab has everything). I called it the “Bruce Banner Test.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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“As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love.”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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“I am a horror maniac who prefers to stay at home.”
― Junji Ito

tags: horror, life

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“Again, I know in the telling it sounds like I was on top of this situation but really, I was still just thinking, Oh shit oh shit oh shit.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

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