Steve Middendorf
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"I had the idea to compare this to 3 Who Made A Revolution. However, the latter is more like a paean to Bolívar than a scholarly study of ejecting Spain from South America. Such an achievement deserves to be fully documented and interlaced with other events in the Americas and Europe" — Dec 30, 2025 12:39AM
"I had the idea to compare this to 3 Who Made A Revolution. However, the latter is more like a paean to Bolívar than a scholarly study of ejecting Spain from South America. Such an achievement deserves to be fully documented and interlaced with other events in the Americas and Europe" — Dec 30, 2025 12:39AM
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This book is like going to the zoo on LSD. You don't know what's what, who's talking, where are you are, or where you've been. But the scenery is intense. If I had it to do over again I would reread the Border Series instead.
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No, no, it was impossible not to give this figure his due—this instigator of countless inhuman crimes was also the leader, the merciless builder of a great and terrible state.
“I light a cigarette to put off the journey till later / To put off all journeys till later / To put off the entire universe till later.” The entire universe is in a bookcase, no need to go out: what’s the point of leaving the Tower, said Hölderlin, the end of the world has already taken place, no reason to go experience it yourself; you linger, your fingernail between two pages (so soft, so creamy) where Álvaro de Campos, the engineer dandy, becomes more real than Pessoa, his flesh-and-blood double. Great are the deserts and everything is desert.”
― Compass
― Compass
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“Times of trouble demand not tears but counsel.]”
― Zibaldone
― Zibaldone
“I read through mounds of files brought up daily from the archives. They contained mostly reports from men and women who had operated on the periphery of war, about journeys that criss-crossed Europe and later the Middle East, as well as various post-war skirmishes—especially between 1945 and early 1947. I began to realize that an unauthorized and still violent war had continued after the armistice, a time when the rules and negotiations were still half lit and acts of war continued beyond public hearing. On the continent, guerrilla groups and Partisan fighters had emerged from hiding, refusing defeat. Fascist and German supporters were being hunted down by people who had suffered for five or more years. The retaliations and acts of revenge back and forth devastated small villages, leaving further grief in their wake. They were committed by as many sides as there were ethnic groups across the newly liberated map of Europe.”
― Warlight
― Warlight
“kidnappers generally roamed the coast, and in the rainy, grey dusk they would stun a freed man in the street and drag him half-conscious onto a ship bound for the Southern states, to make of him a slave again. This was not the only hazard, though it was the worst of them. White men were everywhere aggrieved, and they would sometimes rise up against us black devils, the miserable black scourge who would destroy their livelihood by labouring at cheaper rates.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
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