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"I read two novels and wanted to use goodreads again but I fell back into the world of webnovels. This one in particular is pretty amazing and the english edition of vol. 1 was just released. I'm currently ~50% through the fan translation of the whole series." — Dec 13, 2023 06:08PM
"I read two novels and wanted to use goodreads again but I fell back into the world of webnovels. This one in particular is pretty amazing and the english edition of vol. 1 was just released. I'm currently ~50% through the fan translation of the whole series." — Dec 13, 2023 06:08PM
“He wondered vaguely how many others like here there might be in the younger generation, people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.”
― 1984
― 1984
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
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“One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species—the Neanderthals and the Denisovans—many generations ago, we’re now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we’re done, it’s quite possible that there will be among the great apes not a single representative left, except, that is, for us.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.”
― 1984
― 1984
“If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
2022 ONTD Reading Challenge
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Welcome to the 2022 ONTD Reading Challenge! This year, inspired by the recent ONTD renaissance, we are going all-in with books inspired by classic O ...more
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