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There's a blackness on this valley. I don't know what it is, but I can feel it. Sometimes on a white blinding day I can feel it cutting off the sun and squeezing the light out of it like a sponge. There's a black violence on this valley. It's as though some old ghost haunted it out of the dead ocean below and troubled the air with unhappiness. It's as secret as hidden sorrow. I see it and feel it in the people here"
— Sep 22, 2026 12:07PM
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6/5 ⭐️ what a work of art this book is ⭐️
“Maybe you’ll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger to make a perfect cup —thin, strong, translucent? All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that-more fire.
Can you think that whatever made us-would stop trying?”
— Oct 05, 2026 05:02AM
“Maybe you’ll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose his hunger to make a perfect cup —thin, strong, translucent? All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that-more fire.
Can you think that whatever made us-would stop trying?”
Lovey
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“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
— Oct 02, 2026 09:53AM
Lovey
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🌾“And the Lord said unto him, "Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.'"
— Sep 26, 2026 07:38AM
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"I'll have you know that a soldier is the most holy of all humans because he is the most tested of all. Look now- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced.
Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.”
— Sep 22, 2026 05:11AM
Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.”
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Is this going to be the best book of 2026? 🤞🏻
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like-how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”
— Sep 18, 2026 01:57PM
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like-how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”