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Russia had only recently emerged from four hundred years of feudalism, a system of government that required peasants, labelled as “serfs”, to spend their lives working the land where they were born with little to no chance of ever improving
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Now this is a good description to start off with. To bad Captivating History didn't say things like this. The serfs revolt! No more class abuse!
“An intense response to a work will have its roots in the capacities and experiences already present in the personality and mind of the reader.”
― Literature as Exploration
― Literature as Exploration
“What is that additional element? “Stupid” is not just “ignorant.” It is “ignorant” PLUS “arrogant.” Stupid people are ignorant people who are also arrogant about their ignorance.”
― Scum America: The Stupid Factor
― Scum America: The Stupid Factor
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”
― Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays
― Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays
“I don’t think he took a bath very often either. He had a thick Scottish accent so that half the time I couldn’t understand what he was saying. But the worst thing was that as soon as we met”
― Abducted
― Abducted
“One reason why North Korea is unable to pursue reform and open itself more to the world is that this would risk exposing core dogmas of the state as mere fabrications.”
― Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime
― Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime
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