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Ryan is Currently Reading

Ryan Rice is currently reading

Inner Experience

by Georges Bataille

bookshelves: poetry, philosophy, favorites, surreal, nonfiction, currently-reading

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read in January 2024

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Ryan Rice said: " A ferocious book, at times I felt my body and soul being torn apart, crushed, and then reformed into a comparable being. The act of the final fall into the void of impossibility and the complete immolation of self towards the ungraspable element of c ...more "

Jan 25, 2024 03:36PM · see review

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Juliette

by Marquis de Sade

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