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“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”
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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.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“So many of the bad things that happen in the world come from people pretending to be something they’re not.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“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.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“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...”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
Pablo ’s 2025 Year in Books
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