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Subhasish Das
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“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”
― Days of Reading
― Days of Reading
“Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.”
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“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment ’ and something unspeakably spooky called ‘climate of thought.’ Actually these ‘serious’ courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books.”
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“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”
― Styles of Radical Will
― Styles of Radical Will
“A word that turns up in TNR’s literary pieces is “tasteless. “ They use it in the same way you might reprove a toilet joke at the dinner table or around relatives. But with them it takes on moral weight. It’s a very damaging mistake: the idea that sniffing out the tasteless is the same as taste itself. It confuses censoriousness with a faculty of judgment that links the aesthetic to the moral sense.”
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Subhasish’s 2025 Year in Books
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