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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman

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Science can also mystify the mundane. It can plunge us without warning down a rabbit hole of the curious and curiouser.

Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)

by Jim Butcher

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Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke

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“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”
― Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

tags: adagia, philosophy

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“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”
― Gene Wolfe

tags: literature

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“Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ...”
― wallace stevens

tags: metaphor

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iSchool UW — 85 members — last activity Mar 03, 2008 12:08PM
A place for iSchool students and alums to congregate and share a love of books.

Gene Wolfe Fans — 261 members — last activity May 28, 2024 07:35AM
Described credibly as the greatest living writer of English, Gene Wolfe writes, fulfills, and transcends genres such Science Fiction, Speculative Fict ...more

JumpStart Book Club — 21 members — last activity Mar 14, 2018 08:09AM
This book club was started by members of OCLC's JumpStart ERG. It is open to all OCLC employees!! We read all kinds of books, but we focus on those ...more