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"Enjoying this much more than I thought I would. The writing is pure genius.And it’s actually fun to read, too. Not finding it too difficult (yet), though episode 3 was more research than reading. Even if the many of the erudite allusions, specific Dublin geography, puns, and parallels to the Odyssey go over my head, there’s often something funny, playful, or strikingly beautiful to keep my simple synapses firing" — Jun 17, 2026 08:15PM
"Enjoying this much more than I thought I would. The writing is pure genius.And it’s actually fun to read, too. Not finding it too difficult (yet), though episode 3 was more research than reading. Even if the many of the erudite allusions, specific Dublin geography, puns, and parallels to the Odyssey go over my head, there’s often something funny, playful, or strikingly beautiful to keep my simple synapses firing" — Jun 17, 2026 08:15PM
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“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
― The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
― The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
“Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again.”
― Ash Wednesday
― Ash Wednesday
“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
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“Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.”
― Coriolanus
― Coriolanus
“that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist, but ripeness comes as well.
From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench
there comes a violent love.”
― Agamemnon
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist, but ripeness comes as well.
From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench
there comes a violent love.”
― Agamemnon
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