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Jay Daze

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Jay is Currently Reading

Jay Daze is currently reading

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

by Sue Prideaux

bookshelves: currently-reading, biography-and-autobiography, ebook, female-author, history, library-book, non-fiction

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"Is it to excuse or set in its place in time? Or both? Just how male gaze, western gaze is all consuming in its obsessive expression and desire. I feel it while being uncomfortable and caught up in it." — 23 hours, 51 min ago

May 14, 2026 01:47PM

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The Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #3)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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"Well maaaybe I can see an end. Not restoration but a loping off of the headeof the Guardia. That won't solve everything but maybe a start. ICTHOS has been dealt with..." — 9 hours, 0 min ago

May 11, 2026 08:51PM

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Raising Hare: A Memoir

by Chloe Dalton

bookshelves: currently-reading, ebook, female-author, biography-and-autobiography, library-book, nature, non-fiction

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"The savagry of man to hares." — May 10, 2026 01:11AM

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Jay’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music

Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music by Michael Robbins

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My understanding of poetry’s consolatory powers has more in common with psychoanalysis as a way of fortifying the self through the acceptance of perpetual unrest. Our

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Jay’s Quotes

“For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.”
― Christopher Ricks

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

tags: beauty, imagination, proust, women

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“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

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