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Gessen isn't the best narrator in the world, but that's a trivial objection really. The future is apparently history in the US as well, and so much for "That's not who we are as Americans," eh?Ken White, aka Popehat, is also good today. ...more "
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I labeled this "currently reading" because I subscribe to A.J. Demas's newsletter, Demas is Alice Degan's alter ego, and a revised version of the first novella of the three in this no-longer-available edition came as a newsletter freebie the other da
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“These two distinct crimes, with their different emphases on the individual and the group, grew side by side, yet over time genocide emerged in the eyes of many as the crime of crimes, a hierarchy that left a suggestion that the killing of large numbers of people as individuals was somehow less terrible.”
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
“I know getting Vegas married on cocaine is probably not the best start to a marriage”
― The James Dean Vintage
― The James Dean Vintage
“Fine,” Will said. “I promise. I promise I’ll just bugger off whenever it seems like the easy way out for me, and leave you in this hundred-room hellhole with your family rubbing cheese-graters on your nerve endings. Is that what you want to hear?” “I detect a note of sarcasm.”
― Subtle Blood
― Subtle Blood
“The three things in life he’d wanted to avoid had all come to pass: “to wear eyeglasses, to lose my hair, and to become a refugee.”
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
― East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
“Because he would leave. Oliver felt sure of that. You couldn’t plant a tumbleweed and expect it to yield grapes, no matter how perfect the terroir. The summer was slithering away and in a month or so it would be time for harvest. Then fall would turn the fields to fire and when the leaves fell they would travel halfway around the world to cold, pearly-gray Paris. And then what?”
― The James Dean Vintage
― The James Dean Vintage
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