Madhurabharatula Pranav Rohit Kasinath

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Madhurabharatula’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)

La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1) by Philip Pullman

1 note & 4 highlights

the trouble was that the water wasn’t draining away, and further down the river a number of villages were under threat.

Water is an important motif in this book and i should pay attention to it.

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Madhurabharatula’s Quotes

“For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

tags: fashion, history, humor

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“Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

tags: history, humor

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“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

tags: american-culture, invention, progress

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“It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

tags: fashion, hair, history, humor, wig

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“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry

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