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all clear. It all made sense. Who was that guy we’d read in my philosophy class last semester? That existentialism guy? He was right. Every one of us was alone. Even if you were someone’s identical twin.
“Gems were a way of showing your status, and his wife had always been a perfect model for everything he wanted to display.”
― The Thread
― The Thread
“We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“for a fraction of a moment, my entire childhood felt like a lie: it was as if one of the pillars of belief that my world has been built upon has crumbled”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“If we were all the same species, there was little hope for us; that nothing we ever did in the daytime would bleach out what some of us were capable of at night.”
― The Straw Men
― The Straw Men
“Mythology's just the folktales of people who won 'cos they had bigger swords”
― Carpe Jugulum
― Carpe Jugulum
Utopian and Dystopian Reading Group
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This group is for anyone interested in Utopian and Dystopian Literature to discuss anything from Thomas More's Utopia to present day fiction. Everyone ...more
Irish Lit & Times
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Celtic peoples and lovers of the Irish alike, gather to sing our songs of joyous melancholia! Come discuss anything related to any Irish author, and f ...more
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When life gets busy and you need a break from serious reading what do you reach for? A comfort read means something different to everyone so join us, ...more
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