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At school we used the slates but I never touched a pencil and was most excited to smell the sweet pine and graphite as the Sergeant sharpened his gift he were very fatherly towards me and set me at one end of the table with a sheet of
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“We’re not the sort of couple who lives in each other’s pockets. We live our own lives. It means we have something to say to each other when we finally get together.”
― The Heron's Cry
― The Heron's Cry
“Vistula”
― 1945: The World We Fought For
― 1945: The World We Fought For
“Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed. The Atlantic slave trade did not stem from racist hatred towards Africans. The individuals who bought the shares, the brokers who sold them, and the managers of the slave-trade companies rarely thought about the Africans. Nor did the owners of the sugar plantations. Many owners lived far from their plantations, and the only information they demanded were neat ledgers of profits and losses.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“A woman who was about Jacaranda’s age approached them. She was what Jacaranda thought of as “one of those Vassar graduates who can spell from birth.”
― Sex and Rage
― Sex and Rage
“Nations,’ he said, ‘which can plan and fight together shoulder to shoulder in the face of such obstacles and of distance and of language and of communications as we have overcome, can live together and work together in the coming labour of the organisation of the world for peace.”
― 1945: The World We Fought For
― 1945: The World We Fought For
Edward’s 2025 Year in Books
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