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"I bought this as part of an audiobook bundle. This is the middle book, which will be a palate cleanser between music biographies." — Apr 20, 2026 12:33PM
"I bought this as part of an audiobook bundle. This is the middle book, which will be a palate cleanser between music biographies." — Apr 20, 2026 12:33PM
“Freedom of expression matters most where the expression in question is unpopular: if it is to mean anything, it must mean ‘freedom for the thought that we hate.”
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“It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.”
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“What would the natural, logical fruit of heightened consciousness be if not inertia, by which I mean consciously sitting with folded arms! I mentioned that before. And I repeat it again and again: spontaneous people and men of action can act precisely because they are limited and stupid.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“Wherever collective memory based on selective use of the past holds sway, everyone thinks alike. When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks at all. A society where no one thinks at all is little more than a frenetic and debauched, if picturesque, village bazaar.”
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“Yep, and your internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there's no innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, the worst possible. As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in its heart a bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don't think anything has changed, kid.”
― Bleeding Edge
― Bleeding Edge
The Pale King
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— last activity Sep 04, 2011 08:00PM
Discussions about David Foster Wallace's posthumous release, The Pale King. ...more
DFW - The Broom of the System (group read)
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— last activity Dec 26, 2011 03:08PM
We will be reading David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System," starting October 1, 2011. Here's the reading schedule: https://docs.google.com/sp ...more
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