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Filmed over several years with an army of high-definition cameras, Planet Earth is both beautiful and melancholy: like the portrait a family commissions when it knows that one of its members has a terminal illness.
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
Dan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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140 books
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651 friends
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275 friends
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51 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Horror, Music, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Travel, and Nonfiction
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