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“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic--their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)--and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.”
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
MIT Press
— 46 members
— last activity Jun 25, 2009 12:02PM
The MIT Press is the only university press in the United States whose list is based in science and technology. This does not mean that science and eng ...more
Beantown Book Club (BBC) Reading List
— 11 members
— last activity Nov 07, 2017 06:16AM
A place where we can record the books we've read, general impressions, and get ideas for future meetings! ...more
Diverse SFF Book Club
— 101 members
— last activity Oct 15, 2017 07:48AM
In this book club we will focus on reading speculative fiction centered around people of color and LGBT protagonists. Preferably, the authors will als ...more
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