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“some places are not good places to be a person and not a car and that was where I was.”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I’m not the kind of person who tries to explain a thing that has no explanation so I went to the garden and I pulled things out of it,”
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
― Nobody Is Ever Missing
“Nora Barnacle is not a very interesting person.” So said Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive James Joyce biography, to Brenda Maddox, author of the only Nora Barnacle biography, who quoted him to me.”
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“Consider the following dialogue between an instructor (A) and two of his students (B, C)
A. What happened in the senate
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on the Ides of March 44 B.C.?
B. Napoleon stabbed Mrs Thatcher.
C. Brutus did stab Caesar. In the senate it happened. It was Cassius that stabbed him.”
― Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information
A. What happened in the senate
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on the Ides of March 44 B.C.?
B. Napoleon stabbed Mrs Thatcher.
C. Brutus did stab Caesar. In the senate it happened. It was Cassius that stabbed him.”
― Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information
“It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?”
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
― The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Gregg’s 2025 Year in Books
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