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CRITIQUE:"[Revolution,] Counter-Revolution and Revolt"
This book is a Marxian analysis of political theory and practice concerning (American) capitalism, consumer society and politics during the period from 1968 to 1972.
At first, I wondered why the ti ...more "
“We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.”
― Ubik
― Ubik
“There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.”
― Wise Children
― Wise Children
“My library is an archive of longings.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition
This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
― Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition
“all success cloaks a surrender”
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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