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Literally re-living my thesis at this point, weee.

Re-reading for something I'm working on and forgot about a lot of frustration in grad school.

Oh, Dennys. ". “I do think we’ve got our priorities wrong, we human beings. We’ve forgotten what’s worth saving and what’s not, or we wouldn’t be in this mess.” This book is way too effing timely and it has been forever since I read it. Thermonuclear war, anyone?

One of my classes didn't know there were books after A Wrinkle in Time (I knowww), and some thought it was just a movie (they're reading now), so here I am, reading this for the first time in decades.

Felt like the right effing time to re-read this brilliance.

Democracy has, therefore, two excesses to avoid-the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy or monarchy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotic power, as the latter is completed by conquest.

Re-reading to teach it to students for their research on Gen Z protests.

Because I want to be in my Feels, apparently.

" But that’s the great contradiction of colonialism.’ Cathy uttered this like a simple matter of fact. ‘It’s built to destroy that which it prizes most.’ "

"In Classical Chinese, the characters 二心 referred to disloyal or traitorous intentions; literally, they translated as ‘two hearts’. And Robin found himself in the impossible position of loving that which he betrayed, twice."

Re-reading

Seemed an appropriate day to begin re-reading.

"That one likes to remind folks that Dartmouth is in the Ivy League." "Now that one self-published self-help productivity books."

A must-read. This is our reality. Haven't read it in forever.

Oh, we are literally in this book. Haven't read it since undergrad, but holy crapples.