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recommended for: adults with strong stomachs and a good sense of humor
read in January, 2008 
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"Roach's often irreverent, always hilarious treatment of a semi-taboo subject has the same effect as the car crashes her cadavers so graciously endure: you want to simultaneously look on, and look away.
This is the first time I've felt revolted, ...more " |
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Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII (Penguin Classics) by Plato bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover) by Steven Pinker bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Divisadero (Hardcover) by Michael Ondaatje |
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recommended for: only the most hardcore Ondaatje fans, who'll forgive him anything
read in January, 2008, has a copy to sell/swap
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"Never start a plot you refuse to finish.
I'm generally a fan of Ondaatje's, though his prose often reminds me of something my mother once said about Virginia Woolf: "Her books make me feel like I'm swimming through dark water." Morbid...more " |
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Life of Pi (Mass Market Paperback) by Yann Martel |
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback) by Mary Roach bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: adults with strong stomachs and a good sense of humor
read in January, 2008
Ana said:
"Roach's often irreverent, always hilarious treatment of a semi-taboo subject has the same effect as the car crashes her cadavers so graciously endure: you want to simultaneously look on, and look away.
This is the first time I've felt revolted, ...more " |
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Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII (Penguin Classics) by Plato bookshelves: currently-reading |
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read in January, 2008
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"What falls on air yet's lighter than balloon? What betrays time yet folds into a cut? Who flutters at the sight of song then bellows into flight? What height is halved by precipice, what gorge dissolved by trill? Who telling tales upbraids a stump when prattle veils its want? Stone breaks it not, nor diamonds, yet splits with just one word: it's used for casting devils out; still, fools obey it first. " — Charles Bernstein | |
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. " — Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. " — Alvin Toffler | |
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Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Shirley Brice Heath bookshelves: to-read |
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)
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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. "
— Alvin Toffler
— Alvin Toffler
"What falls on air yet's lighter
than balloon? What betrays time
yet folds into a cut? Who flutters
at the sight of song then bellows
into flight? What height is
halved by precipice, what gorge
dissolved by trill? Who telling
tales upbraids a stump when
prattle veils its want?
Stone breaks it not, nor diamonds,
yet splits with just one word: it's
used for casting devils out; still,
fools obey it first. "
— Charles Bernstein
than balloon? What betrays time
yet folds into a cut? Who flutters
at the sight of song then bellows
into flight? What height is
halved by precipice, what gorge
dissolved by trill? Who telling
tales upbraids a stump when
prattle veils its want?
Stone breaks it not, nor diamonds,
yet splits with just one word: it's
used for casting devils out; still,
fools obey it first. "
— Charles Bernstein
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