1939


And Then There Were None
The Grapes of Wrath
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
Finnegans Wake
King Ottokar's Sceptre (Tintin #8)
The Mask of Dimitrios (Charles Latimer, #1)
At Swim-Two-Birds
Goodbye to Berlin
The Day of the Locust
Rogue Male (Rogue Male, #1)
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Good Morning, Midnight
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)
Aleister Crowley
...the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul.
Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don't know whether Western listeners would find my words embarrassing—it is difficult for me to judge that kind of reaction—but I would put it this way: those people who have lived in the most terrible conditions, on the frontier between life and death, be it people from the West or from the East, all understand that between good and evil there is an irreconcilable contradiction, that it is not one and the same thing—good or evil—that one cannot build one's life without regard to this distinct ...more
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West

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