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Stephen Gallup
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I took a day this past weekend to sit in on a conference entitled “Frontiers in Neural Disorders,” which brought together some researchers I’ve known about for many years.
I took notes, as I always do in situations like that. (I really think I missed my calling in life, because my interest in this sort of thing goes well beyond any hope of its being of practical benefit to anyone I know.)
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What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son
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Synopsis of WHAT ABOUT THE BOY? A Father's Memoir (Nonfiction)
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"I'm likely to be a long time reading this tome. As far as I know, no other readrs have commented on the dreamlike, or even Kafkaesque, quality that some passages have, such as:
May I walk with you? Again, this is really a stupid thing to say.
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Let me start off by saying that I did like this book...I thought that Roose had some interesting insights into evangelical Christianity and this wasn't the "Evangelical Bashing" I thought it would be. I laughed at some of his confusion over things...
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Carson Napier escapes from his bondage in the room of seven doors and breaks Duare free from the throes of her captor who wants to take advantage of her. Carson and Duare are then lost on the unexplored areas of Venus, and they're trying to find a...
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| This novel is opposite, in every way, from the Clancy book I read on the fly while in progress with this one. There could not be a clearer demonstration of the difference between two-dimensional stick figures and actual characters with depth and comp...more | |
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As this is a book with zero characterisation and one that basically represents a series of battles that the submarine always wins--indeed invariably escapes from unscathed--I see no point in continuing.
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“I sensed then, and later formulated the conviction that wellness and potential are every child's birthright. And I'm quite sure that society is served when children have it.”
― Stephen Gallup, What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son
― Stephen Gallup, What About the Boy? A Father's Pledge to His Disabled Son
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Misery, like prosperity or triumph, is the spiritual property of a nation. To forget a nation’s suffering is to create new misery in its place.”
― Wang Dan
― Wang Dan
“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”
― Arthur Miller
― Arthur Miller
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“I knew that we'd never get there. I knew this, in the same way I knew Tati would never be a teacher, and that Benny would be the end of me. Life's about confirming what we already know. About making sure. ”
― Nami Mun, Miles from Nowhere
― Nami Mun, Miles from Nowhere
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