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Pablo is Currently Reading

Pablo López is currently reading

Introduction to the Structural Analysis of the Narrative

by Roland Barthes

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Apr 19, 2026 08:09PM

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Solar Bones

by Mike McCormack

bookshelves: contemporary, irish-lit, currently-reading

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— Apr 18, 2026 03:03PM

Apr 18, 2026 03:03PM

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The Shining (The Shining #1)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-lit, gothic, horror

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read in December 2017

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— Apr 20, 2026 03:48PM

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Pablo ’s Quotes

“Each critic in the work of reading is on his or her own, face to face with the text, alone with it, never so alone as at that moment”
― J. Hillis Miller

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“Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“So many of the bad things that happen in the world come from people pretending to be something they’re not.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“You couldn’t protect the people you loved – that was the lesson of history, and it struck him therefore that to love someone meant to be opened up to a radically heightened level of suffering.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apart, until one day it dawns on you that this is normal life now...”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

tags: existentialism, life

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