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Philip Athans
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Didn’t actually read all of the very long essay on Dickens. I’ve really never read Dickens but mean to, and this was basically 50+ pages of spoilers.
— Dec 11, 2025 12:14PM
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Philip Athans
is on page 257 of 320
"But is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify oneself with visions of a totalitarian future?"
— Dec 29, 2025 07:47AM
Philip Athans
is on page 193 of 320
"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint might avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
I don't drink or smoke but I'll keep my "and so forth" to myself.
— Dec 26, 2025 07:56AM
I don't drink or smoke but I'll keep my "and so forth" to myself.
Philip Athans
is on page 162 of 320
“Shooting an Elephant” is disturbing and sad.
— Dec 25, 2025 05:59PM
Philip Athans
is on page 139 of 320
“The Art of Donald McGill”
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
— Dec 23, 2025 02:27PM
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Philip Athans
is on page 55 of 320
This, in "Such, Such Were the Joys" hit HARD:
A child which appears reasonably happy may actually be suffering horrors which it cannot or will not reveal. It lives in a sort of alien under-water world which we can only penetrate by memory or divination.
— Dec 02, 2025 08:26AM
A child which appears reasonably happy may actually be suffering horrors which it cannot or will not reveal. It lives in a sort of alien under-water world which we can only penetrate by memory or divination.
