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"Just arrived (su02jun19 1110a)! Great Iowa City poet" — Jun 02, 2019 09:11AM
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"Just arrived! So excited to read this. Read a review that made me HAVE TO order this. In 1820's London, Frannie is up for murdering her employers, who took her in from a bad situation in Jamaica, where she was born and reared. She has no memory of the day of the murder or why she was covered in her employers' blood. She cannot believe she murdered her mistress because they were in love. And much more!" — Jun 01, 2019 04:24PM
"Just arrived! So excited to read this. Read a review that made me HAVE TO order this. In 1820's London, Frannie is up for murdering her employers, who took her in from a bad situation in Jamaica, where she was born and reared. She has no memory of the day of the murder or why she was covered in her employers' blood. She cannot believe she murdered her mistress because they were in love. And much more!" — Jun 01, 2019 04:24PM
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"This is a wild little volume. It obviously draws on late modern discourses of knowledge and power to justify its advice for self-improvement and care, but what is turning out to be kind of great is the basic wisdom of its basic advice. Accept rather than resist, a la Buddha, Jesus, half of de Sade, et al., is an example of the wisdom (when it comes to most things, yet not everything). Kind of Fascinating so far" — May 30, 2019 08:02PM
"This is a wild little volume. It obviously draws on late modern discourses of knowledge and power to justify its advice for self-improvement and care, but what is turning out to be kind of great is the basic wisdom of its basic advice. Accept rather than resist, a la Buddha, Jesus, half of de Sade, et al., is an example of the wisdom (when it comes to most things, yet not everything). Kind of Fascinating so far" — May 30, 2019 08:02PM
“July is a blind date with summer.”
― Sundial of the Seasons
― Sundial of the Seasons
“O that we had, to make our woes more public,
Seas in our eyes, and brazen tongues by nature,
A yelling voice, and hearts composed of sorrow,
Breath made of flames, wits knowing naught but damage,
Our sports murd'ring ourselves, our musics wailing,
Our studies fixed upon the falls of fortune.”
― The Old Arcadia
Seas in our eyes, and brazen tongues by nature,
A yelling voice, and hearts composed of sorrow,
Breath made of flames, wits knowing naught but damage,
Our sports murd'ring ourselves, our musics wailing,
Our studies fixed upon the falls of fortune.”
― The Old Arcadia
“You can do this, but I don't know that you will.
"'Thou mayest' . . . . 'Timshel'"
--Me and then John Steinbeck, *East of Eden* (Penguin, 2002), 306-307”
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"'Thou mayest' . . . . 'Timshel'"
--Me and then John Steinbeck, *East of Eden* (Penguin, 2002), 306-307”
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