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"I'm really enjoying this. Doesn't feel at all gimmicky and I'm having fun figuring out the Dickens references. It's been a while since I've read it so it's all a bit fuzzy." — Nov 07, 2026 02:22PM
"I'm really enjoying this. Doesn't feel at all gimmicky and I'm having fun figuring out the Dickens references. It's been a while since I've read it so it's all a bit fuzzy." — Nov 07, 2026 02:22PM
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"Mason & Dixon reach Philadelphia (second only to London). Between the Transit of Venus and here, they went each to their respective homes? I had some trouble making sense of the chronology. Also some kind of controversy with their work and compensation. I don't really follow the politics either." — Dec 13, 2025 02:16PM
"Mason & Dixon reach Philadelphia (second only to London). Between the Transit of Venus and here, they went each to their respective homes? I had some trouble making sense of the chronology. Also some kind of controversy with their work and compensation. I don't really follow the politics either." — Dec 13, 2025 02:16PM
“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Sloth kept him in bed awhile. Restlessness drove him downstairs to the tiny court behind his kitchen, where the sun made more mist. Under its warmth everything gave off ghosts. They work from the bricks, rose with a deep reluctance, disappeared.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
“Pointless labor, useless trash, but for the bureaucrat nothing's trash until he affronts his soul by throwing it out.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
“The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this end for years.”
― A Is for Alibi
― A Is for Alibi
“Injustice has parcelled out the world, nor is there equal division of aught save of sorrow.”
― The Complete Fairy Tales
― The Complete Fairy Tales
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