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"I finished part 1 which introduces Gertrude Stein and publication history/early critical reception of The Making of Americans. Part 2 is more essays. I will read part 3 alongside TMOA, as it is a “chapter” by “chapter guide (there are no actual chapters, chapters seem to be supplied by critics)." — May 16, 2026 04:48PM
"I finished part 1 which introduces Gertrude Stein and publication history/early critical reception of The Making of Americans. Part 2 is more essays. I will read part 3 alongside TMOA, as it is a “chapter” by “chapter guide (there are no actual chapters, chapters seem to be supplied by critics)." — May 16, 2026 04:48PM
Irish women at the time enjoyed protection under the law that, if not equal to what men enjoyed, was far superior to what women faced elsewhere at the time, or would face in a future Ireland.
“Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
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“Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing- straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
But as in landlessness alone resides highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God- so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all this agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly, demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing- straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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