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The Death of Artemio Cruz

by Carlos Fuentes

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Holy Bible: King James Version

by Anonymous

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Bread said: " pentateuch read in 04/03/2024- the language of kjv was generally pretty good & quite beautiful or striking at times. genesis was definitely the most fascinating book. jacob strikes me as an odysseus figure. josephs story in egypt was really emotional pentateuch read in 04/03/2024- the language of kjv was generally pretty good & quite beautiful or striking at times. genesis was definitely the most fascinating book. jacob strikes me as an odysseus figure. josephs story in egypt was really emotionally gripping. there seemed to be gaps in certain narratives or interior states of mind that raises stimulating questions & interpretation. the theme of people going against or doubting God is of course ever-present. some interesting (& in some cases eyebrow-raising) moral, ritual, & legal ideas in leviticus & numbers there are some repetitive/tedious sections like the desc. of the tabernacle, burnt offerings, & genealogies. overall though, it was definitely an experience to delve into one of the most important & influential works ever, & i look forward to reading the historical books next

historical books read in 06/28/2025 - more historical exploration of the relationship between God & the Israelites, namely how they keep falling away from Him. The period of the judges seemed like a chaotic time, but the instituting of the monarchy afterwards was even worse, something made apparent in Samuel & Kings. Other than the obvious, there are also hints of pretty egregious wrongdoing by even the supposedly good kings like David & Solomon. Add to all this the divinely-ordained destiny of the Israelites to possess the land, & you get the odd genocide here & there. Ezra is also pretty noxious with his hatred of racemixing. Really fascinating though historically, esp with the account of how it all leads to the Babylonian captivity. In contrast, Cyrus & the Persian rulers seem really quite nice Ruth is also really interesting, having a strong female character in a straightforward narrative & thematically showing the difficulties of navigating Gods laws+arguing that foreigners can be accepted. Sometimes the books can be pretty tedious with the genealogies & censuses

poetic books read in 01/10/2026 - starting off with perhaps my favourite book so far, the book of job is an incredible examination of perhaps the greatest & most enduring challenge to theism - the problem of evil. the adversary raises a very important challenge to God re the maintenance of faith without material benefit/reward, & job is portrayed quite sympathetically in his rage against God & the world's injustice. while Gods speech in the end is quite magnificent I find it rather unconvincing as a response to job's charges, & I'm left cold even as job is restored his material benefits. while there were some lovely passages in psalms, i found the book as a whole somewhat repetitive to read altogether. there seems to be many theologically-motivated translation choices in kjv's psalms in particular. proverbs is a work of wisdom literature, emphasising the importance of wisdom, the wise man vs the fool, & exhorting the reader to be just, be good to the poor, & be faithful to God. it has a rather straightfoward & predictable conception of the world, in which right is rewarded & wrong is punished. in contrast, ecclesiastes presents a much more complex & pessimistic picture in striking language. all is vanity, there is nothing new under the sun, he that increaseth wisdom increaseth sorrow, pleasure & profit is all vanity, the powerless suffer, & we all die the same, the wise man as the fool. to everything there is a season, & as human knowledge is finite, the best we can do is accept life & eat, drink, & be merry. finally, the song of songs is a short & erotic poem between a woman & her lover. quite intriguing & it certainly stands out amongst the other books ...more "

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Bread’s Quotes

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.”
― Frederick Douglass

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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.”
― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

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“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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