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Another book Of Jurgen T's I have come across is
"PROOF OF POISON".
Poison was the perfect way of committing murder
until science had made advances in
the study of anatomy,
for so long an outlawed area of investigation and study,
and the effects on the bo ...more "
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Wayne said:
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This is such an interesting title,so you only get as far as the cover and ALREADY
you have been seized by the ...throat !!?
What lies behind this choice?
Well, getting even darker, or just 'curioser and curioser',
it is the Husband, Thomas Carlyle HIMSEL ...more "
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""It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs.Carlyle marry one
another,and so make only two people miserable and not four." -Samuel Butler" — Apr 22, 2017 08:11PM
""It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs.Carlyle marry one
another,and so make only two people miserable and not four." -Samuel Butler" — Apr 22, 2017 08:11PM
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(page 130 of 256)
"I already have !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" — Sep 13, 2019 02:30PM
"I already have !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" — Sep 13, 2019 02:30PM
“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”
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“Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims.”
― Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889 - 1939 Biographie
― Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889 - 1939 Biographie
“The world owes you nothing because the universe has already given you everything.”
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“So if you don’t fit in; if you feel at odds with the world; if your identity is troubled and frayed; if you feel lost and ashamed, it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.”
― How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
― How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Bleak House
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— last activity Jun 05, 2013 08:06AM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The read will take place February 2013-April 2013, but t ...more
The Thomas Mann Group
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— last activity Aug 12, 2020 09:04PM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read the works of Thomas Mann. Our next scheduled read is The Magic Mountain, taking plac ...more
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