The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
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Read between July 29 - August 7, 2020
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“A tidy metaphor does not make a wrong thing right.”
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Cicadas hiss in the pines. They sound like fat frying in a shallow pan.
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“The present is a battleground”—Yoshida straightens his spine as best he can—“where rival what-ifs compete to become the future ‘what is.’
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He senses the gaze, the captain guesses, of his future self, watching him.
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“we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.