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for Banshee was unterrorizable, not from strength of character but from a complete lack of sense.
“Hundreds of words await ostracism from our functional vocabularies: waltz and fizz and squeeze and booze and frozen pizza pie, frizzy and fuzzy and dizzy and duzzy, the visualization of emphyzeema-zapped Tarzans, wheezing and sneezing, holding glazed and anodized bazookas, seized by all the bizarrities of this zany zone we call home. Dazed or zombified citizens who recognize hazardous organizations of zealots in their hazy midst, too late - too late to size down. Immobilized we iz. Minimalized. Paralyzed. Zip Zap. ZZZZZZZZZ.
Crazy.
Crazy.
Did I say crazy?”
― Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Crazy.
Crazy.
Did I say crazy?”
― Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
“Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.”
― Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
― Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Jane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,517 books
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87 friends
120 books
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12 friends
688 books
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415 books
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23 friends
130 books
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30 friends
209 books
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12 friends
119 books
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4 friends
187 books
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15 friends
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