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"Rome's baths didn't involve soap, sewage system just carried around bacteria, human waste wasn't composted or processed before being spread on farms, lived in close quarters: several huge plagues that weakened the empire" — Feb 01, 2024 03:45PM
"Rome's baths didn't involve soap, sewage system just carried around bacteria, human waste wasn't composted or processed before being spread on farms, lived in close quarters: several huge plagues that weakened the empire" — Feb 01, 2024 03:45PM
a hollow oak-apple, with its quill spout and wired-on handle—burnished it was now and hard with age; there were two roast sliced chestnuts which they would eat like toast with butter and a cold boiled chestnut which Pod would cut like
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The only thing better than descriptions of old-timey food is if the food is very tiny as well.
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― White Oleander
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
― Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
― Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
“You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.”
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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
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