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""That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."" — Jan 15, 2012 04:52pm
""That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."" — Jan 15, 2012 04:52pm
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""There lived a man in the south of the parish who had a red stain over half his face; 'twas said he was thus because his mother had looked at a burning house while she was big with him."" — Jan 14, 2012 11:05pm
""There lived a man in the south of the parish who had a red stain over half his face; 'twas said he was thus because his mother had looked at a burning house while she was big with him."" — Jan 14, 2012 11:05pm
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""To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self."" — Jan 03, 2012 04:23pm
""To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self."" — Jan 03, 2012 04:23pm
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In which we learn that being invisible doesn't mean you can just do whatever you want, and get away with it.
This was a fun read, with some great slap-stick humour, but it didn't wow me, or make me see the world in a different way, which is what I e...more |
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| I can't talk about what I like most about this book without revealing a spoiler, so instead I will say this: Willis writes a book that is about the scariness, the uncertainty, the pain, the aloneness, the regret, the unpreparedness, the sadness of th...more | |
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| Better than I was expecting, given that this was Christie's first published novel. Witty and fun and had me changing my guess as to who done it several times. | |
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How to Fossilize Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist
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| A book full of interesting science experiments you can perform with everyday household items, written in an amusing and easy to understand manner. | |
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Not so much about tea as about philosophy, art, differences in culture...
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| Very idea packed, not so good with the 3 dimensional, believable character relationships thing. But it's so idea packed, (on what happens when artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans, future of corporations and economics, what a post-sing...more | |
“...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping...something runs among them, an exchange of glances like lines that connect one figure with another and draw arrows, stars, triangles, until all combinations are used up in a moment, and other characters come on to the scene... ”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
“The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.”
― Herman Wouk, This Is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism
― Herman Wouk, This Is My God: A Guidebook to Judaism
“Perhaps we should be happier in our cities were we to respond to them as to nature or dreams: as objects of exploration, investigation and interpretation, settings for voyages of discovery.”
― Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
― Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
“We who live here wear this corner of the city like a comfortable old coat, an extension of our personalities, threadbare yet retaining a beauty of its own.”
― Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
― Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
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