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C.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at C.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
C. Derick Varn’s Followers (396)
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C. Derick Varn
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in Augusta, GA, The United States
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https://www.goodreads.com/skepoet
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Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind
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Liberation and All the Bright Etcetera
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”
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“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
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“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.”
― The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field
― The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field
“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”
― Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power
― Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
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