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“The inner life of modern society, its tastes and interests, are also full of barbarous traits. Passion for shows and amusements, passion for competitions, sport, gambling, great suggestibility, a propensity to submit to all kinds of influences, to panic, to fear, to suspicions. All these are features of barbarism. And they all flourish in our life, making use of all the means and contrivances of technical culture, such as printing, telegraph, wireless telegraphy, quick means of communication, and so on.”
― A New Model of the Universe
― A New Model of the Universe
“Do not think my brains are squeezed shut, like the ram’s, by the roots of horns.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
“Make up a story… tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe… show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear… — Toni Morrison,”
― Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories
― Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories
“Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry—crawling, whimpering, streaming tears, across the world like a two-headed beast, like mixed-up lamb and kid at the tail of a baffled, indifferent ewe—and I gnashed my teeth and clutched the sides of my head as if to heal the split, but I couldn’t.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
“The soul of man is far too complex a combination for all the voices shouting in it to become united into one harmonious choir. All the kingdoms of nature live in man. Man is a little universe. In him proceed continual death and continual birth, the incessant swallowing of one being by another, the devouring of the weaker by the stronger, evolution and degeneration, growing and dying out. Man has within him everything from a mineral to God. And the desire of God in man, that is, the directing forces of his spirit, conscious of its unity with the infinite consciousness of the universe, cannot be in harmony with the inertia of a stone, with the inclination of particles for crystallisation, with the sleepy flow of the sap in a plant, with the plant’s slow turning towards the sun, with the call of the blood in an animal, with the “three-dimensional ” consciousness of man, which is based on his separating himself from the world, on his opposing to the world his own “ I ” and on his recognising as reality all apparent forms and divisions.”
― A New Model of the Universe
― A New Model of the Universe
Cathy Wilson’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cathy Wilson’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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