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It’s like that poem Larkin wrote. “I have started to say ‘A quarter of a century’/ Or ‘thirty years back’ /About my own life/It makes me breathless…”
“According to the New Testament, shortly before the crucifixion a woman anointed Christ with precious oil worth 300 denarii. Jesus’ disciples scolded the woman for wasting such a huge sum of money instead of giving it to the poor, but Jesus defended her, saying that ‘The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me’ (Mark 14:7).”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“He said it with the air of a man who always demands the best, and then settles for what he can get.”
― Top of the Heap
― Top of the Heap
“Every story begins in blood: a squalling baby yanked from the womb, bathed in mucus and half a quart of their mother’s blood. But not many stories end in blood these days. Usually it’s a return to the hospital and a dry, quiet death surrounded by machines after a heart attack in the driveway, a stroke on the back porch, or a slow fade from lung cancer.”
― The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
― The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
“So it should not come as a surprise that millions of pious Christians, Muslims and Jews manage to believe at one and the same time in an omnipotent God and an independent Devil.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“and only in the last 100,000 years – with the rise of Homo sapiens – that man jumped to the top of the food chain. That spectacular leap from the middle to the top had enormous consequences. Other animals at the top of the pyramid, such as lions and sharks, evolved into that position very gradually, over millions of years. This enabled the ecosystem to develop checks and balances that prevent lions and sharks from wreaking too much havoc. As lions became deadlier, so gazelles evolved to run faster, hyenas to cooperate better, and rhinoceroses to be more bad-tempered. In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given time to adjust.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Joshua T Mathews’s 2024 Year in Books
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