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When sound first came in, that’s when popcorn and all the drinks started and necking in the theater started, because you could turn away and do all sort of things and you could still hear.
“Advertising,” he wrote, “now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.”
― The Fifties
― The Fifties
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
Peter’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Peter’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
941 books
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1,188 friends
2,059 books
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1,290 friends
120 books
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391 friends
54 books
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1,446 friends
78 books
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1,658 friends
22 books
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37 friends
56 books
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495 friends
36 books
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1,369 friends
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