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"One quarter through this epic!" May 04, 2026 07:46PM

 
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"Wow. Hans is having such an intense time! and Mann is really weaving all his elements together in a tight web of signification. And I get to feel like a genius because I think I’m catching some of what he’s up to, as it happens, and pat myself on the back when he takes another step along the path I noticed." Feb 27, 2026 07:33AM

 
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If you stick with me, you see this is it. A potter with a crooked foot, but I think if you were with me, I might be something more. I think I’ve never had anything to work for, nothing to believe in, really, and a man needs that more than ...more
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Walter Benjamin
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.”
Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

Jennifer Hayden
“All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die.”
Jennifer Hayden, The Story of My Tits

E.L. Konigsburg
“...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia”
E L Konigsburg, 天使雕像

James Baldwin
“I know what I'm asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand-and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and the American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

A.S. Byatt
“Metamorphoses" he said, "are our way of showing, in riddles, that we know we are part of the animal world”
A.S. Byatt, Possession

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