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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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In the morning he heard the tinker’s shoddy carillon long through the woods and he rose and stumbled to the door to see what new evil this might be.
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― Zibaldone
“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
“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
“Things separate from their stories have no meaning.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
“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
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