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Yanko Tsvetkov is a Bulgarian-born interdisciplinary artist who lives in Spain, writes in English, and publishes books in France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Turkey, China, and South Korea. He has visited several continents, traversed thick jungles, picnicked in scorching deserts, and booked a few taxis in crowded metropolises. He leads a second life as a caped superhero who fights prejudice with his giant laser.

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	Atlas of Prejudice: Mapping Stereotypes #1 3.84 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex, Drugs and Tales of Wonder (Apophenia, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 97 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection 4.01 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atlas of Prejudice 2: Chasing Horizons #2 4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Codex Hyperboreanus (Apophenia, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apophenia: Myths, Tales and Legends from an Imaginary World by Yanko Tsvetkov (Goodreads Author), Alphadesigner (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays on Prejudice: Deep Thoughts on Domesticating Scapegoats and Slapping Labels on Everything That Makes Your Ass Itch 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Schmetterschwanz Manuscript (Apophenia, #0) by Alphadesigner, Yanko Tsvetkov (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saint Brendan and the Brotherhood of Virile Serenity by Yanko Tsvetkov (Goodreads Author), Giovanni Dionisi (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Krachkultur 21/2020 by Martin Brinkmann (Editor), Alexander Behrmann (Editor), Heimito von Doderer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Eros the Bittersweet

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bookshelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, essay, mythology, semiotics

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Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader

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Irish Fairy Tales

by James Stephens

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“It is better to waste one’s gold than to waste one’s time, for gold can be acquired from a mine, sold, gifted, or stored in a bank. Time has no master and no shape. No rock can contain it, and nobody can own it. Time is the breath of the Goddess, the rhythm of her chest, the pulse of her beating heart.”
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tags: gold, materialism, money, time, wisdom

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“On her fifteenth anniversary, she lined up her thirty six dolls and beheaded them with a single swing, proudly announcing the end of her childhood.”
― Yanko Tsvetkov, Codex Hyperboreanus

tags: adulthood, childhood, coming-of-age, growing-up, maturity

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“Truth is like medicine—too little will keep you sick, too much will kill you.”
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tags: truth, truth-of-life

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“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

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“Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?”
― Luis Buñuel

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“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

tags: criticism, history

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“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

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“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
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