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Goofy. Very curious if it read as goofy at the time. Suspect so.

More of a pamphlet...more persuasive on some topics than others, not much in the way of why.

Oddly unpersuasive

‘Spring water, just coloured with the leaves of the lowest-priced tea and sweetened with the brownest sugar is the luxury for which you reprove them. To this they have recourse from mere necessity, and were they now to be deprived of this they would immediately be reduced to bread and water. Tea-drinking is not the cause, but the consequence of the distresses of the poor.’

Goodreads wonkiness .... why is the 'Reader's Also Enjoyed' list for The History of Tommorow, by Yuval Noah Harari, dominate by, well, me? Is it because I was one of the earliest readers before it came out in English? But the book has like 14,000 ratings. And those aren't even necessarily books I liked all that much...

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"perhaps the weirdest case name in American legal history: United States of America v. One Lucite Ball Containing Lunar Material (One Moon Rock) and One Ten Inch by Fourteen Inch Wooden Plaque."

This book is so flimsy I keep forgetting I'm reading it.

How did this sub-genre become my comfort reading?!?!

A revolution that has not produced a new space has not realized its full
potential; indeed it has failed in that it has not changed life itself, but has merely changed
ideological superstructures, institutions or political apparatuses. A social transformation, to be
truly revolutionary in character, must manifest a creative capacity in its effects on daily life, on
language and on space

Added in the spirit of masochistic completionism. It's not exactly reading...

"They were not dead, merely avoiding central authority" the problem with censuses.

My only 2015 reading goal, it having been a dismal year otherwise: get through this by 2016.

"Pray that your loneliness may prompt you to find something to live for, great enough to die for." Good grief.

There are more frequent flier miles in circulation - by value - than there are US Dollars?

"After brief but intense fighting, the Italian troops fled. Their officers did not even bother to take their sabres or tennis rackets with them."

The frequency with which this slides is utter surrealism is fascinating.

This is so standardly jargony it's gone all the way back around to being kind of readable.

Just to clarify, I will never, ever finish reading this, but I think the mild French contempt of the way it will now stare at me for years from the 'currently reading' list speaks to a certain sense of intellectual inadequacy I am currently experiencing, so here it goes.

The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither art nor life. They are taxidermy.

... We Americans will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia : what is the purpose of life? For us the answer will be clear, established, and for all purposes indisputable : the purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

Inquiring minds: is Avrana Kern influenced by Kerr Avon of Blake's Seven?

"A city of almost eight million can support two aquariums, and it can afford to show off its fish free. " I'm a tiny bit tipsy and therefore find this both profound and hilarious. At least I hope that's why.

Real people are unique, they invest years of their lives in significant relationships with other unique people, and are not interchangeable in the least. Severed from their relationships, they are destroyed as effective social beings - sometimes for a little while, sometimes forever.

Real people are unique, they invest years of their lives into