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There’s a saying in Texas: “The smallest dog barks the loudest.”
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"I first encountered Jonathan Crary in graduate school - his "Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century", an astonishingly read. The premise of 24/7 is compelling: sleep is the last barrier that capitalism faces..."
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“Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?”
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“Every limbed animal has the Sonic hedgehog gene.”
― Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor
― Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor
“Had you ‘artists’ had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal,” Ignatius snorted.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
Ben’s 2018 Year in Books
Take a look at Ben’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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