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Might be done with this, leaving the period I'm interested in.

So the Hundred Days Reform ended badly...

...who does not repent cannot be absolved;/nor can we admit the possibility/ of repenting a thing at the same time it is willed,/for the two acts are contradictory.

Just about to start the section on the Sino-Japanese War.

Dense book is dense. This is good since I'm using it for a big paper.

Who thinks I can read this in a day?

Progress will be slowed for a couple of weeks due to school.

The Blacktalons.

There is in Hell a vast and sloping ground/called Malebolge, a lost place of stone/as black as the great cliff that seals it round.

Circle 7, the violent.

Annual re-read time!

In the section of Easter prayers. Appropriate.

Finished Dr. Johnson's Birthday Prayers, next are his New Years Prayers. Thus far, all have been quite poignant in their generality.

This number is deceptive as there's a 30 page introduction by the editor, which is quite fascinating.

Oh, Sansa! You're not dumb! There's that Stark snark I've been looking for!

Gangrene no good.

Robb Stark, strategic genius.

Man, Targaryons are like lice, they're on the wall, they're with the Dothraki, never know where they'll turn up.

How did Sansa miss out on all the smart genes? Also, why do I get the feeling that Catelyn Stark is going to suit up and smash some heads in battle?

Whelp, saw that coming.

Ya know, Lord Baylish, as much fun as court intrigue is, sometimes it pays to do the right thing and forget about the money.

He knows. She knows he knows. Shit's about to hit the fan.

I like that it's over halfway through the book and this is the first time I've actually seen the Iron Throne. Also, the thing makes the Doom of Damocles look cuddly.

Jon Snow is, literally, a clever bastard.

Why is Eddard Stark such a stud?

Daenerys putting Viserys in his place warms the cockles of my heart.

Fraking Lannisters