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Some of the best writing of all time, but extremely dark and violent. 1850s mexico-U.S. was hell

This is changing my entire perspective on everything

I couldn’t resist starting this after reading an excerpt. Will try my best to not get into drugs while reading

Found this at a used book store in Nanaimo. I think the copy is over 100 years old. There’s a a piece of paper with an ad for Wrights coal tar soap that was being used as a book mark. 🤓 so far Thomas de Quincey’s “opium eater” is a stand out from the literary excerpts

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Think this may be one of my favourite collections of short stories

Henry Heimlich was actually a really shitty person… he used to go on talk shows to politicize his life-saving maneuver, and sell merch for it… apparently health officials stopped calling it the Heimlich because of how embarrassing he became

I think literary-nonfiction is my new fave. Artistically explaining tragic historical events is powerful stuff

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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. 

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