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She was so trapped in her own narcissism that she wasn’t really able to fake it for a conversation.
“A rumor sprang up, which circulated for decades, that he had been poisoned.”
― Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
― Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
“Descartes and his followers had set themselves in opposition to the Scholastic notion of matter. According to the traditional way of thinking about these things, the sky has blueness in it, water has wetness, garlic has its odor.”
― Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
― Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
“In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern.”
― Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
― Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
“Dealing in contraband, outwitting the Revenue, overcoming their greater enemy, the sea: this was everyday business to them. The abnormal was their normality.”
― Taking Liberties
― Taking Liberties
“When she had been forced to walk away from men pleading for water, she had heard the voice of her Saviour begging for help. She would not have described herself as a particularly devout woman but she knew that if she continued to ignore such a summons she would be doing violence to her immortal soul.”
― Taking Liberties
― Taking Liberties
Bonnie’s 2025 Year in Books
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