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"It is we who sit at home with evil who remember... and are warned and pity..."
clearly, I am making no progress with this book. But every vignette from the first chapter of part 2 has been absolute galaxy gas. What an absolutely incredible prose writer. Such an incisive view of the human consciousness. Not much has changed about how we think since... when was this written? The 50s?
I think I'm Esme!
— Oct 03, 2026 12:10AM
clearly, I am making no progress with this book. But every vignette from the first chapter of part 2 has been absolute galaxy gas. What an absolutely incredible prose writer. Such an incisive view of the human consciousness. Not much has changed about how we think since... when was this written? The 50s?
I think I'm Esme!
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Michael
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"Nothing escaped Mr. Pivner's eye, nor penetrated to his mind; nothing evaded his attention, as nothing reached his heart."
— Sep 23, 2026 10:25PM
Michael
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"...he mentioned to me the idea of a novel factory, a sort of assembly line of writers, each one with his own special little job. Mass production, he said, and tailored to the public taste."
— Sep 15, 2026 11:01PM