Emily

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories by Hugh Howey

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Always this: our accomplishments subsiding to time and acclimation.

Dead and Alive: Essays

by Zadie Smith

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The Holy or the Broken

by Alan Light

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See Emily’s 9 books with notes and highlights…

“And so we must remember that illness is not only a biomedical phenomenon, but also a constructed one, and how we imagine leprosy or OCD or tuberculosis matters.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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“To read these multiple images we must learn to suffer the ridiculous image to disclose itself within the tragic, the mythic in the trivial, the ironic in the poignant. You do not read Ulysses; you watch the words. (“Joyce’s Forest of Symbols”)”
― Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

tags: joyce

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“Man, it would seem, does not evolve; he accumulates. (“Prehistoric Eyes”)”
― Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

tags: history

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“Over time, we all become committed to a version of the story of our lives. Simplification and repetition solidify the account, and we tend to stick with that identity. But that is old news.”
― Bob Woodward, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat

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“I find it interesting that even here, in the supposedly pure world of science, we feel the weight of historical forces pressing in upon discovery. Our desire to create outsiders, the competition for resources among communities that would be better off cooperating, and our long history of warfare all come together in this moment of discovery.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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