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Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

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Feb 03, 2026 06:54PM

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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

by Barbara Comyns

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Feb 01, 2026 07:10AM

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The City of Hermes: Articles and Essays on Occultism

by Mr John Michael Greer

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Oct 02, 2023 06:30PM

“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

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“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”
― Wendell Berry

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“What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?”
― Wendell Berry

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“Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

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“It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance

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