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Making very slow progress on this. Sometimes it's hard/confusing to read and it's hard to tell how much is translation and how much is original (I assume it's mostly the original and refusing to smooth it down). Ziporyn has tons of useful notes about
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“Quite so,” said Bobby, reflecting that business resembles charity in that it covers a multitude of sins.
“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
― The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
― The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“It is practically a matter of life or death for a True Cock Worshiper to taste pre-cum.”
― DEMONSAPIENISM & True Cock Worship: True Cock Worship
― DEMONSAPIENISM & True Cock Worship: True Cock Worship
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