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John Dishwasher’s 2025 Year in Books
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John Dishwasher
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The Would-Be President: An American Farce
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The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground
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Why We Hurt
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meet me at The Ontario Art Book Fair
Saturday, March 28, 2026 in downtown Ontario, California. I will be at this event with $10 copies of The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground, $5 copies of Why We Hurt, and my street art zine "Street Gallery."
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| This was an unexpectedly compelling read as it blends memoir, biography and an introduction to Hakim Bey’s idiosyncratic thought. I had never been exposed to this kind of hedonistic transcendental esoterica. Bey blends reality with what he calls ‘the ...more | |
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| In this play the master is actually the slave. The most free character here is the gladiator Spartacus – free because even as a slave he is motivated by and willing to die for love and liberty and a very simple idyllic life. Crassus, the principal ch ...more | |
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| The paradox of human endeavor, according to Soseki, is that to be inactive is to damage yourself, but to be active is to damage others. Throughout this book we see the temptation to stay static out of trepidation or laziness or a feeling of security ...more | |
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| Our thirst for freedom and self-fulfilment is real and perhaps our most fundamental human characteristic. Unfortunately, according to De Campo, we cannot truly satisfy that thirst while staying a part of society. He suggests that such fulfillment can ...more | |
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| Mostly this outlines the conditions necessary to bring genius to full fruition. According to Card, genius begins with natural talent in a state of relative innocence, which is then reared in isolation, taught into extreme self-reliance, and freed of ...more | |
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| A history of thought surrounding the evolution and elaboration of ideas concerning prehistory. This book has a monumental quality. I’m outside the antiquarian field but it would seem to me required reading for anyone wanting to enter it, as it provid ...more | |
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| Our need to control or understand a mystery is so strong that we will risk everything to achieve it, according to Eliot. Even when we know it will cost us unhappiness and destruction, still we pursue it. The key phrases in this story are “insight at ...more | |
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| Even in defeat one can win. That is, one can win in terms of bravery, dignity and morality. This is a portrait of powerless wisdom grappling with empowered brutishness. It feels in places like a mixture of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Kahlil Gibra ...more | |
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| A portrait of human empathy. Few of the folks involved here (except perhaps the author) have much to gain from involving themselves in these strenuous, frustrating efforts to find these lost hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail. But something stirs thei ...more | |
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| Self-compromise is one of our biggest foibles, and certainly one of our most universal ones. Very few of us really arrive at our highest ideals without having to bend them to some degree. This book meditates on this limitation of ours. Sometimes we c ...more | |
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“Good fortune makes men blind.”
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“Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.”
― Die schwarze Spinne
― Die schwarze Spinne
“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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