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I'm trying to write an actual paper incorporating my complaints about this book. For now, here's a first draft of those complaints. This is absolutely not the place for such a piece, but I don't want to write another version of it specially for go...
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Like many Americans these days, I have no direct experience of war, so reading books like this one is (hopefully) the closest I'll get to knowing what it's like. As far as I can tell, war is the horrific dark antithesis to civilization. The central ai...more |
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“Fuck! It was dull, it was dead. I’d covered forty pages, as easily as counting. No resistance or difficulty or spring, no surprises, nothing rich or strange. No hum, no torque. Instead, everything I saw and heard and said and did was lined up lik...
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I try not to read books that make me paranoid or hypochondriac — and that's not the intention of this book — but I'll think twice next time that I'm in some exotic place and close to wild animals. The Monkey Forest in Bali was mentioned in this bo...
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“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”
― Isaiah Berlin
― Isaiah Berlin
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake
― William Blake
“She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.”
― Marcel Proust
― Marcel Proust
“Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste.”
― Charles Baudelaire
― Charles Baudelaire
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (sans guitar) (Professional & Technical)
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let's get a few things clear here....
A Million Little Book Reports (Health, Mind & Body)
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updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32pm
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It's an addiction memoir. I haven't actually written it yet, because I'm still gathering my material by living through the agony and despair.
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