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Sorrow and Bliss

by Meg Mason (Goodreads Author)

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A God in Ruins

by Kate Atkinson

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Stories To Make You Smile: The Reading Agency

by Fanny Blake (Goodreads Author)

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Thomas’s Quotes

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

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“We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

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“DIE KARTOFFELSORTIERMASCHINE rüttelte im Bogen=Lampen=Licht: Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie! / Umdient von 4 Lemuren in fahler Tracht: die Schatten flohen manchmal entsetzt vor ihren eigenen Herren davon. (Zaunzu hülfesuchend? – Bei uns iss ooch keene.)”
― Arno Schmidt, KAFF auch Mare Crisium

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“Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth...”
― Georg Trakl

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“...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch...”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of ...more