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This book is, for some reason I can’t pin down, absolutely exhausting to read. It feels like his statements/claims are so vague it’s difficult to parse them. The very existence of this book as written (a treatise instead of a poem— that is, truth first, not beauty) seems to defeat his own argument.

Who knew it was a common complaint in the 1490s that too many people were bringing their dogs and hawks into church with them?

I suppose it’s significant that Paradiso is always such a slog after Inferno and Purgatorio.

Funny that the most devastating ending to a Stephen King story wasn’t even thought up by Stephen King (The Mist’s 2007 film adaptation). The story itself is actually fairly underwhelming compared to that.

“As a contortionist, Dr. Gairdner was the original boneless wonder. More than ever Grant wondered with what part of their brains historians reasoned. It was certainly by no process of reasoning known to ordinary mortals that they arrived at their conclusions.”