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finished THE GIFT OF THE MAGI

a parable that does not rely on, or relies on rejecting, the smallheartedness considered common

finished THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

odds and ends make what note there is to be had, that a man removed from his country's violence is so much the better

finished LOVE OF LIFE

finished THE GREAT STONE FACE

innocence shall always find the world wanting, and why not?

finished THE MAN WHO CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG

i often think of how both twain and crowley had a pronounced attachment to what christian principles promised, which turned by necessity into an almost anti-christianity, so that they may be followed in practice the more

finished THE PURLOINED LETTER

Edgar Allan Poe is exactly whom I picked up this strange collection for, but the vagueness of image as grown by the scattered references which are but chaff, for all that they record of the blunt emotions that remained to be recorded, gave me no idea of him, save the alleged darkness of his stories, to look forward to. One story can tell me of how he popularized the detective genre.

child slavery (20something year olds) appears to be the only way we've ever gotten our government to work

"i stood tiptoe"... wow

i had higher hopes for my reread of foundation and empire, in terms of contrasting the titular pair, but it's still---quite fine.

finished the Foundation reread; enjoyed some of the subtlety (though the subtlety isn't complete) that ive realized was there