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“You look as if you’d seen a ghost or found a gold mine. I don’t know which.” “Gold mine,” said Jo. And then, “No. Ghost.”
“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
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