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The Would-Be President: An American Farce
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| This play balances a character of constancy, principle and conscience against a whole mob of shitheads who enjoy none of these qualities. Interesting to me is the mixture of respect and resentment that this character of conscience creates in those ch ...more | |
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| This was a great reading year. Average rating was 3.8 on 51 books, and I only gave ratings below 3 stars twice. My five favorite books of 2020 are listed below. Usually I wouldn't pick one as the best among them but The Hours just blew me away. This ...more | |
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| Allegory at its frankest. Mutis shows a boat chugging up a river through an Amazonian jungle. This boat is us as individuals. The captain of the boat is our mind. The passenger of the boat is our spirit. The boat is our body. Crazy shit comes at us o ...more | |
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| A caper. Some heavy duty irony, too, since you’ve got thefts, vanity, deception, attempted adultery and deals with the devil going on just as Christ’s birth is being celebrated. There’s also some anger and envy and greed, if you really look, which ro ...more | |
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3.5 stars Superficially this truly amusing book is about the history of the bicyclist in Amsterdam. But it was impossible for me to read through its hilarious anecdotes without being reminded that human beings express themselves through all mediums, n ...more |
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“Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
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“Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.”
― Die schwarze Spinne
― Die schwarze Spinne
“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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