Literati


Of Women and Salt
Trust
Disorientation
Noor
Somebody's Daughter
The Five Wounds
The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
Hamnet
Klara and the Sun
The Divines
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Lost & Found: A Memoir
Land of Big Numbers
The Renunciations: Poems
It Had to Be You
The Sound of the Sea by Cynthia BarnettWhy We Swim by Bonnie TsuiLast Chance to See by Douglas AdamsFeasting Wild by Gina Rae La CervaThe Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Atlas Obscura Book Club
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Dejan Stojanovic
There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

Ezra Pound
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.
Ezra Pound

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