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"been really enjoying Lloyd Kahn's books about various types of handbuilt architecture around the planet and seeing how all these vary across different cultures and geographical areas, I had no idea for instance that there was this big a subculture for this in France for exampe" — Nov 01, 2026 11:34PM

 
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"Reading this because another guest in the local park recommended it, turns out to be a Japanese novel about a journalist interviewing a woman serial killer who seduced most of her victims through her exquisite cooking. So far it's very informative about Japan's food culture, and the author is quite good at describing not just the taste but also the smell and texture of all the food prepared." — Nov 01, 2026 11:35PM

 
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"interesting that people in different parts of ancient Egypt had different creation myths each centring the main deity worshipped in their particular city, but people had no problem with any of that" — Oct 05, 2025 10:36PM

 
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

Martin Heidegger
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”
― Martin Heidegger

Clarice Lispector
“I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at certain white moments because all I have to do is comply with myself and then nothing will block my path until death-without-fear, from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

James Crumley
“Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.”
― James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss

Patricia Highsmith
“I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

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