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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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“Passions, deaths, storms, etc., give us great pleasure in spite of their ugliness for the simple reason that they are well imitated, and if what Parini says in his Oration on poetry1 is true, this is because man hates nothing more than he does boredom, and therefore he enjoys seeing something new, however ugly.”
― Zibaldone
― Zibaldone
“he is one of those good teachers who “are capable of retracing in detail, and holding accurately in their minds the origins, progress, mode of development, in short, the history of their own notions and thoughts, their knowledge and their intellect” (Z 1376).”
― 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
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“Here was the authentic voice of the Slav. These people hold that the way to make life better is to add good things to it, whereas in the West we hold that the way to make life better is to take bad things away from it.”
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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