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Humanity must seek what is NOT simple and obvious using the simple and obvious.
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“People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know.”
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“she sees how happiness hides in the humdrum, how it abides in the everyday toing and froing as though happiness were a thing that should not be seen, as though it were a note that cannot be heard until it sounds from the past...”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
“To the ancient Greeks, myths were the same as history—they believed that all of the fantastical events in them had really happened once upon a time. The myths were their way of making sense of the past, even as far back as how the world was created.”
― Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece
― Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece
“the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff”
― Ducks, Newburyport
― Ducks, Newburyport
“A woman spent about ten minutes looking around the shop, then told me that she was a retired librarian. I suspect she thought that this was some sort of a bond between us. Not so. On the whole, booksellers dislike librarians. To realise a good price for a book, it has to be in decent condition, and there is nothing librarians like more than taking a perfectly good book and covering it with stamps and stickers before – and with no sense of irony – putting a plastic sleeve over the dust jacket to protect it from the public. The final ignominy for a book that has been in the dubious care of a public library is for the front free endpaper to be ripped out and a ‘DISCARD’ stamp whacked firmly onto the title page, before it is finally made available for members of the public to buy in a sale. The value of a book that has been through the library system is usually less than a quarter of one that has not.”
― The Diary of a Bookseller
― The Diary of a Bookseller
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
CORMAC MCCARTHY THE MASTER OF WORDS
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A group dedicated to the enjoyment of great writing, not to analysis, not to eloquence, but to the joy of reading words well put on paper
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