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Essays

by George Orwell

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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

by Hilary Mantel

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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Between the World and Me (One World Essentials) by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I write you in your fifteenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw Eric Garner choked to death for selling cigarettes; because you know now that Renisha McBride was shot for seeking help, that John Crawford was shot down ...more

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

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“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
― Franz Kafka

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: humor, perspective, science

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