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Eggp is 68% done with Of Human Bondage Annotated
Wiki: "It was written in pencil, in a fine but very peculiar handwriting, which was hard to read: it was just like black-letter."

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Of Human Bondage Annotated

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Eggp is 64% done with Of Human Bondage Annotated
Wiki: "You can’t tell these people to go to St Moritz."
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Of Human Bondage Annotated

Eggp
Eggp is 16% done with Of Human Bondage Annotated
Word: "He cast down the fetish of exercise, damning with the contemptuous word pot-hunters all those who devoted themselves to its various forms..."

2. A sportsman who shoots anything he comes across, having more regard to filling his bag than to the rules which regulate the sport

3. One who takes part in any contest or competition merely for the sake of winning a prize.
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Of Human Bondage Annotated

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Eggp is 15% done with Of Human Bondage Annotated
Wiki: "The silent old ladies who sat at the top of the table near the Frau Professor were in a flutter, and when Fräulein Hedwig said she was to go home at once for the formal engagement to take place, the Frau Professor, regardless of expense, said she would give a Maibowle. "

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Of Human Bondage Annotated

Eggp
Eggp is 9% done with Of Human Bondage Annotated
Word: "I remember Mr Gordon used to call me a gipsy counter-jumper when I was in his form."

1. One who jumps over a counter: applied in contempt to a shopman or shopkeeper's assistant.
Jul 30, 2022 07:57PM Add a comment
Of Human Bondage Annotated

Eggp
Eggp is 49% done with The Bell
Wiki: "Today the reader was Catherine and the book from which she read was the Revelations of Julian of Norwich."
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The Bell

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Eggp is 53% done with Thinner
Wiki: "It was the usual raree and Gypsy turnout — the more things change, the more they stay the same."
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Thinner

Eggp
Eggp is 10% done with The Bostonians
Word: "So she expressed herself, while the company watched the encounter with a look of refreshed inanition."

1. The action or process of emptying; the condition of being empty; spec. the exhausted condition resulting from want or insufficiency of nourishment. Also fig.
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The Bostonians

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Eggp is 5% done with The Bostonians
Wiki: "She looked as if she had spent her life on platforms, in audiences, in conventions, in phalansteries, in seances...
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The Bostonians

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Eggp is 3% done with The Bostonians
"There are women who are unmarried by accident, and others who are unmarried by option; but Olive Chancellor was unmarried by every implication of her being."
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The Bostonians

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Eggp is starting The Bostonians
"It was the usual things of life that filled her with silent rage; which was natural enough, inasmuch as, to her vision, almost everything that was usual was iniquitous."
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The Bostonians

Eggp
Eggp is 93% done with Popol Vuh
Wiki: "The packstrap is a strip of hide used to protect the forehead when a load is carried with a tumpline."
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Popol Vuh

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Eggp is 37% done with Popol Vuh
Wiki: "They did not yet pray to the tree­ stone."
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Popol Vuh

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Eggp is 27% done with Popol Vuh
Wiki: "When the rat had named it they gave the rat his food, and this is his food: corn kernels, squash seeds, chili, beans, pataxte, cacao."

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Popol Vuh

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Eggp is 23% done with Popol Vuh
Wiki: "This is the calabash, as we call it today, or 'the skull of One Hunahpu', as it is said."

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Popol Vuh

Eggp
Eggp is 18% done with Popol Vuh
Wiki: "In order to eat the fruit of the nance he goes up the tree every day."

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Popol Vuh

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Eggp is 6% done with Popol Vuh
Wiki: "Burning in the background are offerings of candles and copal incense."
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Popol Vuh

Eggp
Eggp is 96% done with The Canterbury Tales
23. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 3 stars. Alchemist's assistant rants about what a terrible con artist his master is, reveals several sneaky alchemical tricks.
24. The Manciple's Tale, 3 stars. Pet crow blabs about witnessing wife's infidelity, husband doesn't appreciate his honesty.
25. The Parson's Tale, 2 stars. Boring sermon rambling on about penitence and contrition, some light begging for mercy at the end, amen.
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The Canterbury Tales

Eggp
Eggp is 86% done with The Canterbury Tales
20. The Monk's Tale, 3 stars. Famous people throughout history get puffed up with pride, suffer humiliating ends.
21. The Nun's Priest's Tale, 3 stars. Rooster promptly forgets his prophetic dream after being ridiculed by wife, gets flattered outrageously by a fox.
22. The Second Nun's Tale, 3 stars. Cecilia's husband is cuckolded by a fragrant angel of the lord, sainthoods for everyone persecuted.
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The Canterbury Tales

Eggp
Eggp is 83% done with The Canterbury Tales
Wiki: "What about Kenelm’s dream, of which I read
In the life of St Kenelm, Kenulphus’ son,
The noble King of Mercia?"
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The Canterbury Tales

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Eggp is 79% done with The Canterbury Tales
16. The Shipman's Tale, 3 stars. Wife says she'll sleep with a monk for a chunk of change, he borrows it from her own husband.
17. The Prioress's Tale, 1 star. Antisemitic story about jews murdering a christian child for singing.
18. Sir Topaz, 2 stars. Interrupted tale of a very silly knight told in verse.
19. The Tale of Melibee, 2 stars. Wife advises husband against revenge for a brutal attack on their family.
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The Canterbury Tales

Eggp
Eggp is 69% done with The Canterbury Tales
13. The Franklin's Tale, 2 stars. Faithful wife jokes to incel that she'll put out if he'll make some rocks disappear, husband tells her to go through with it.
14. The Physician's Tale, 2 stars. Judge perverts the law to get his hands on a pretty maiden, father cuts her head off to save her (his) honor.
15. The Pardoner's Tale, 3 stars. Blasphemous young men find treasure, kill each other to get more for themselves.
Jun 24, 2022 06:56PM Add a comment
The Canterbury Tales

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Eggp is 66% done with The Canterbury Tales
Wiki: "But as I live and breathe, you’re a real man,
And you might be a bishop, by St Ronyan!"
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The Canterbury Tales

Eggp
Eggp is 33% done with Binstead's Safari
Wiki: "...the man had had a clear shot at the biggest kudu buck you’d ever seen, standing still straight in front of them, broadside on, had missed four times and then brought it down by throwing a rock at it and hitting it on the head..."

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Binstead's Safari

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Eggp is 9% done with Creation
Wiki: "Although he controlled the Greek cities of Asia Minor and exercised a degree of suzerainty over a number of islands like Samos, the Great King was never much interested in the western world, particularly after his defeat on the Danube."
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Creation

Eggp
Eggp is finished with A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
38. Mijito, 2 stars. Homeless teenager can't take care of her baby.
39. 502, 2 stars. Cop is polite to drunks.
40. Here It Is Saturday, 3 stars. Prisoner has a real talent for writing.
41. B.F. and Me, 1 star. Fat man doesn't show up on time.
42. Wait a Minute, 3 stars. Sister finally dies, life moves on.
43. Homing, 3 stars. Her dream happy ending fantasy: entire family died in an earthquake, extremely on brand.
Jun 18, 2022 06:27PM Add a comment
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 83% done with A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
32. So Long, 2 stars. Sister still dying, old lover calls to gossip.
33. A Love Affair, 2 stars. Covers for a coworker's cheating.
34. Let Me See You Smile, 2 stars. Sleeps with a teenager, everyone gets beaten up by cops.
35. Mama, 2 stars. Mother wasn't always awful, sister still dying.
36. Carmen, 2 stars. Pregnant woman becomes a drug mule.
37. Silence, 2 stars. Abuse, broken friendships, chronic alcoholism.
Jun 18, 2022 08:02AM Add a comment
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Eggp
Eggp is 62% done with A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
26. La Vie en Rose, 3 stars. Young girls moon over cadets.
27. Macadam, 1 star. Prisoners put down a new road.
28. Dear Conchi, 2 stars. Letters to a friend about a gross love affair.
29. Fool to Cry, 3 stars. Having lunch with a stuck up childhood friend.
30. Mourning, 2 stars. Cleaning the homes of the recently deceased.
31. Panteón de Dolores, 2 stars. Mother was awful, sister is dying.
Jun 17, 2022 06:34PM Add a comment
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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Eggp is 55% done with A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Wiki: "In a cenote in the Yucatán, atop Tulum, in the convent in Tepoztlán, in her little room, we laugh with joy at the similarities of our responses..."

Cenote > Hells Bells (cave formations)
Jun 17, 2022 12:40PM Add a comment
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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