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He lived a full life from dawn to dusk, each day was like being born again
“All of them, she thought, an entire culture trained to military order. What a priceless thing is here for an outcast Duke!”
― Dune
― Dune
“Wherever he goes, this winter, I will follow him. I will share the fear, and the exaltation, and the boredom, of the hunting life. I will follow him till my predatory human shape no longer darkens in terror the shaken kaleidoscope of colour that stains the deep fovea of his brilliant eye. My pagan head shall sink into the winter land, and there be purified.”
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“The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.”
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
“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
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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