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Tossed into the scalding pot, the frog will get burned badly and may or may not escape. The frog is actually better off in the slow-boiling pot:12 it will leap out as soon as the water starts to get uncomfortably warm. It’s not the frogs
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“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“That’s all poetry is, really: something odd, coming out. Normal speech, overflowed. A failed attempt to do justice to the world. The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it. Poetry is the resultant bulging of the fence.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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56 friends
1,436 books
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132 books
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56 friends
34 books
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29 books
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203 books
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308 books
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75 books
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