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"So I've decided that I want to obtain a BA in English without going to school again. I've created a list of 120 books that are more or less representative of the history of English literature. First book? The King James Version of the Bible (no Apocrypha ;_;). I just got through Genesis (pretty stories!), Exodus (pretty story then rules), and Leviticus (just rules). Wish me luck!" — Feb 18, 2026 03:15PM
"So I've decided that I want to obtain a BA in English without going to school again. I've created a list of 120 books that are more or less representative of the history of English literature. First book? The King James Version of the Bible (no Apocrypha ;_;). I just got through Genesis (pretty stories!), Exodus (pretty story then rules), and Leviticus (just rules). Wish me luck!" — Feb 18, 2026 03:15PM
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask."
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"No––"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"No––"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.”
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Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.”
―
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