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Rene is Currently Reading

Rene is currently reading

Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

by Tamsyn Muir (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: audiobooks, espooky, fantasy, sci-fi, elias-buddyread, currently-reading, queer, political-intrigue

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read in May 2024

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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

by Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: anthropology, non-fiction, thanatology, currently-reading

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“You don’t question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you’d brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is “lawful,” you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence “unlawfully.”
― Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism

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“In olden times, when a king sent his vogt to a village, the peasants received him with flowers in one hand, and arms in the other, and asked him--which law he intended to apply: the one he found in the village, or the one he brought with him?”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

tags: commune, feudal-society, feudalism

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“Camilla and Palamedes were loved by Nona, said Paul. Pyrrha was loved by Nona. It’s finished, it’s done. You can’t take loved away.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

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“Camilla, we did it right, didn't we?" Palamedes said, and now Nona knew he wasn't speaking to anyone else in the universe. "We had something very nearly perfect... the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

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“At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them. We might further ponder how those discoveries may one day transform life on Earth.
Absent such curiosity, we are no different from the provincial farmer who expresses no need to venture beyond the county line, because his forty acres meet all his needs. Yet if all our predecessors had felt that way, the farmer would instead be a cave dweller, chasing down his dinner with a stick and a rock.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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