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Freya’s 2025 Year in Books
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Freya Abbas
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Erasmus's Folly is Jestermaxxing
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What's up fam? We're going to get a little deep on this post lol. Sorry if it sounds a bit like traumadumping at first. But I promise it will get into some interesting analysis of old books later. I will talk a bit about Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, but the majority of this post will be about Erasmus's In Praise of Folly (1511).
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This is very interesting to read as a primary source. Although Williams is generally considered to be progressive for his time and a supporter of Native American rights, reading this makes it seem like he was not really that different from other colo
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Am I Literate?: Redefining Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence:
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A revelatory journey through the power of literacy, this book transforms what could be a dry historical account into a riveting exploration of human communication. Through the stories of remarkable women and their groundbreaking approaches t" Read more of this review » |
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If I had to make a list of my favourite poems from this volume, I think it would be pretty much the same as yours.
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"3/5
Beautiful, modern, and full of anxiety, stress, fear, and grief over the changing world. Out of the 42 poems, I only liked 18 of them. I found myself questioning some of them after I finished, I just couldn't get what I had just read. Many I found " Read more of this review » |
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“What shall I take with me?
Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?
How shall my heart act?
Is it that we come in vain to live,
to sprout over the earth?
Let us leave at least flowers,
let us leave at least songs.”
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“If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.”
― The Songlines
― The Songlines
“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
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