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Oliver Wright gave to: Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut recommended for: Any American who cares, even a little. read in February, 2012	My rating:
Readers and scholarly types describe Vonnegut's short stories as dystopian parodies. They are neither. Not anymore. When Vonnegut wrote Harrison Bergeron back in 1960, he imagined American life in 2050. But reality split the difference. If we-you-ha...more
Feb 13, 2012 06:04am · see review
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Oliver Wright gave to: A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges recommended to Oliver Wright by: Las portenas de Buenos Aires. recommended for: Anyone, but particularly writers honing the craft. read in December, 2011	My rating:
I started reading Borges when I was living and writing in Buenos Aires. He's influenced my writing quite a bit, particularly the juxtaposition of seemingly (and actually) unrelated items inside the space of a paragraph or sentence. Borges is an innov...more
Feb 09, 2012 03:29am · see review
Oliver Wright added a quote "Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring…But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight." — Ernest Hemingway
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“Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false spring…But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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