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Arian is on page 44 of 499 of Thinking, Fast and Slow
Focuses on the eye pupil as a reliable indicator of mental effort - ‘they dilate substantially when ppl multiply two-digit numbers, and and they dilate more if the problems are hard than if they are easy.’
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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Arian is on page 141 of 592 of The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri
For openly preaching the message, the Prophet ﷺ and his early converts were persecuted. Narrations of verbal and physical abuse, mockery, and attempted murders are all authenticated.

The Quraish then try to negotiate with the Prophet ﷺ, proposing a compromise: both parties would give up some of their faith. The Prophet ﷺ responded by reciting Surah Al-Kafirun (109)…
Feb 08, 2026 04:31AM 1 comment
The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri

Arian
Arian is on page 108 of 592 of The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri
This update the Prophet’s ﷺ birth, forty years prior to prophethood, and the early stages in his call to Islam.

An interesting extract on Muhammad’s ﷺ early life; when he was ~12 years old, he met with a Monk, Bahirah, on a trade journey to Syria with his uncle. Upon meeting the Prophet ﷺ he readily recognised him…
Feb 05, 2026 03:48PM 3 comments
The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri

Arian
Arian is on page 41 of 1181 of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
We are now in Jugoslovenka!
Jan 24, 2026 01:28PM Add a comment
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Arian
Arian is on page 71 of 592 of The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri
An interesting extract on the Abyssinian Christians’ attempt to demolish the Ka’bah after an Arab pilgrim smeared excrement on the front wall of the Church that was built to attract the pilgrims to the exclusion of Makkah.

The Quran (105) mentions that God sent against them flocks of birds that pelted them with stones.
Dec 12, 2025 01:02PM 2 comments
The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri

Arian
Arian is on page 63 of 592 of The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri
The first 62 pages details the aspects of pre-Islamic Arabian society. Notably, the pagan beliefs and practices that were synonymous with the arabs before the Prophet’s ﷺ prophethood.

A brief mention of Judaism’s and Christianity’s presence in the Arabian peninsula.
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The Sealed Nectar (Ar-Raheequl-Makhtum) by Safiur Rahman Al Mubarakpuri

Arian
Arian is on page 27 of 1181 of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Took me awhile to get through the prologue; West packs a lot in just 30 pages.

How Luccheni foreshadowed the fascist movement, then manifested by Mussolini who orders a successful assassination attempt on the King of Yugoslavia, believing that ‘with the King’s death the country would fall to pieces and be an easy prey to a foreign invader’
Nov 20, 2025 12:51PM 3 comments
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Arian
Arian is starting Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Finally decided to pick up this mammoth of a book.
I am reading the Canons edition, introduction by Geoff Dyer.
Nov 11, 2025 07:15AM Add a comment
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Arian
Arian is finished with 1984
Afterword read.
Oct 03, 2025 07:12AM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 351 of 368 of 1984
Appendix read.
‘doubleplusgood duckspeaker’ is now in my vocabulary!
Oct 02, 2025 01:05PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 336 of 368 of 1984
End of story. Will reserve my final comment for the review.
Oct 01, 2025 03:49PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 310 of 368 of 1984
I am lost for all words.
The descriptive language used for the interrogation is the best I’ve ever read.
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1984

Arian
Arian is on page 295 of 368 of 1984
“We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him”
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1984

Arian
Arian is on page 271 of 368 of 1984
We’re in the endgame :(
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1984

Arian
Arian is on page 255 of 368 of 1984
“We are the dead”, he said.
“We are the dead”, echoed Julia dutifully.
“You are the dead”, said an iron voice behind them.
Sep 28, 2025 10:51AM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 245 of 368 of 1984
Will go over pages 205-245 after I finish.
Emmanuel Goldstein is the strangers prosecutor of 1984.
Sep 27, 2025 06:44PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 227 of 368 of 1984
Read about the inner meaning of the Party’s slogan: ‘War is Peace’.
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein.

Can’t wait to read more!
Sep 24, 2025 04:53AM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 205 of 368 of 1984
‘WE ARE THE DEAD’

WHAT A LINE.
WHAT A LINE.
WHAT A LINE.
Sep 22, 2025 02:07PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 192 of 368 of 1984
‘It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.’
Sep 21, 2025 04:01PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 179 of 368 of 1984
Strikes interrupted my reading
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1984

Arian
Arian is on page 156 of 368 of 1984
I want to read more from Julia. Her insight on how sexual privation can be transformed into leader-worship reads so clear to me.
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1984

Arian
Arian is on page 145 of 368 of 1984
‘Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.’
Sep 07, 2025 01:12PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 134 of 368 of 1984
A love affair between comrades?! I’m rooting for them!
Sep 06, 2025 01:58PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 134 of 368 of 1984
A love affair between comrades?! I’m rooting for them.
Sep 06, 2025 01:57PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 121 of 368 of 1984
Part 1 read! I was just as disappointed as Winston with the old man at the pub.
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1984

Arian
Arian is on page 94 of 368 of 1984
One more chapter to read before part 2!
Sep 04, 2025 04:09AM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 80 of 368 of 1984
Learning more and more about the party.
Sep 01, 2025 11:47PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 73 of 368 of 1984
Chapter 4 focuses on Winston’s work which entails a continuous alternation ‘to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.’

Chapter 5 on Newspeak: a vocabulary that gets smaller every year to narrow the range of thought — to not think at all. This is true Orthodoxy in ‘England Socialism’ (in Oldspeak language).
Aug 31, 2025 04:00PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 44 of 368 of 1984
‘Doublethink’ sure sounds hard to practise.
‘To consciously induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.’
Aug 26, 2025 01:36PM Add a comment
1984

Arian
Arian is on page 34 of 368 of 1984
There is so much I want to quote down but am shattered from work today. Onto chapter 3!
Aug 23, 2025 01:37PM Add a comment
1984

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