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π 98
If we weren't crushed by the past, we were terrified of it. Our finest achievement was not to be at war. (...) Our seas were cleaner, with life beginning to return (...) That was not down to virtue. It was the result of civilisations collapse. Whenever humans got out of the way, the rest of the living world edged back and flourished.
— 14 hours, 59 min ago
If we weren't crushed by the past, we were terrified of it. Our finest achievement was not to be at war. (...) Our seas were cleaner, with life beginning to return (...) That was not down to virtue. It was the result of civilisations collapse. Whenever humans got out of the way, the rest of the living world edged back and flourished.
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Geral(dine)
is on page 108 of 297
π 107
The Corona was more beautiful for not being known. (...) it presented to posterity the pure form, the ideal of all poetry.(...) The imagined lords it over the actual - no paradox or mystery there. Many religious believers do not want their God depicted or described. (...) Living out our lives within unexamined or contradictory assumptions, we inhabit a fog of dreams and seem to need them.
— 14 hours, 29 min ago
The Corona was more beautiful for not being known. (...) it presented to posterity the pure form, the ideal of all poetry.(...) The imagined lords it over the actual - no paradox or mystery there. Many religious believers do not want their God depicted or described. (...) Living out our lives within unexamined or contradictory assumptions, we inhabit a fog of dreams and seem to need them.
Geral(dine)
is on page 94 of 297
π¬ "rapturous swagger" :D color my vocabulary influenced heheh
π 94
I felt younger, healthier and more attractive than I could possibly hope to be at the age of forty-four. Some rapturous form of inner swagger assured me that I was worthy of the moment.
— 15 hours, 13 min ago
π 94
I felt younger, healthier and more attractive than I could possibly hope to be at the age of forty-four. Some rapturous form of inner swagger assured me that I was worthy of the moment.
Geral(dine)
is on page 57 of 297
π 46
The varieties of silence are as numerous as those of speech or thought. Or of listening. After Francis had read the last word of the final line of the final sonnet of his Corona, there were ten distinct silences around the table.
— Oct 19, 2026 12:36PM
The varieties of silence are as numerous as those of speech or thought. Or of listening. After Francis had read the last word of the final line of the final sonnet of his Corona, there were ten distinct silences around the table.
Geral(dine)
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π 28
I know all that they knew - and more, for I know some of their secrets and their futures, and the dates of their deaths. That they are both vivid and absent is painful. They can move me and touch me, but I cannot them. Sustained historical research is a dance with strangers I have come to love (...).
— Oct 19, 2026 10:55AM
I know all that they knew - and more, for I know some of their secrets and their futures, and the dates of their deaths. That they are both vivid and absent is painful. They can move me and touch me, but I cannot them. Sustained historical research is a dance with strangers I have come to love (...).
Geral(dine)
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π22 - Francis about the poem
It loves the natural world more than I do.
π 23
They would surely love this poem. They would not understand it. But Vivien would.
— Oct 18, 2026 09:27AM
It loves the natural world more than I do.
π 23
They would surely love this poem. They would not understand it. But Vivien would.
Geral(dine)
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π¬ still don't know about this one. It's great and then it isn't. Banger sentence followed by dry scene setting clouding up my eyeballs (I understand this checks out for who I'm following here and the general research premise but twas a gift I did nawt pick this book myself. Let me moan and enjoy and complain again!)
— Oct 18, 2026 09:12AM
Geral(dine)
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π 12
The issue was not a lost birthday poem read after dinner, It was what the poem by its non-existence had become: a repository of dreams, of tortured nostalgia, futile retrospective anger and a focus of unhinged reverence.
— Oct 18, 2026 09:06AM
The issue was not a lost birthday poem read after dinner, It was what the poem by its non-existence had become: a repository of dreams, of tortured nostalgia, futile retrospective anger and a focus of unhinged reverence.
Geral(dine)
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finished: 1 (pages 3-10)
Page 10
"(...) Apparently, the field of speculation is 'the nature of the universe'. In which case it's also a matter for poetry. The impenetrable concepts don't need to be understood to be made to sing."
— Jan 06, 2026 01:20AM
Page 10
"(...) Apparently, the field of speculation is 'the nature of the universe'. In which case it's also a matter for poetry. The impenetrable concepts don't need to be understood to be made to sing."
Geral(dine)
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Pages 7+8 - Francis
"Francis never stirred from his chair, never did a thing. I don't think it crossed his mind that the household, the meals or even the state of his underwear might have something to do with him. He was, after all, a genius."
— Jan 06, 2026 01:18AM
"Francis never stirred from his chair, never did a thing. I don't think it crossed his mind that the household, the meals or even the state of his underwear might have something to do with him. He was, after all, a genius."