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Riyah Neck
is 58% done
“He was no different from the newspaper readers he so despised and derided who, because it was less painful than learning the harsh lesson of all they had endured, longed to return to those ideal tomes before the war.”
— Nov 19, 2025 11:22PM
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Riyah Neck
is 95% done
"Naturally the law must take its course, it always does, and the law is cruel and has no sense of humor. Only when the criminal has discharged the debt of his age will it become clear whether enough still remains that is personal to him to make a reassessment of his value worth while."
— Nov 22, 2025 08:38PM
Riyah Neck
is 88% done
“To split up the ostensible unity of the person into all these different pieces is considered mad. Science has coined the term schizophrenia for it. Scientists are wrong in believing that the only possible combination of our many sub-selves is a once-and-for-all thing, a binding arrangement valid for the whole of our lives.”
— Nov 21, 2025 10:02PM
Riyah Neck
is 69% done
“All of us more demanding people, those of us who long to for something better and have that one dimension too many, would be incapable of living if, apart from this world’s atmosphere? There weren’t another air to breath; it apart from time, eternity didn’t also exist, the kingdom of authentic life. No such thing as posterity in eternity, only contemporaneity.”
— Nov 21, 2025 01:54AM
Riyah Neck
is 67% done
“My unhappiness was stupid, barren. Because if I wanted to die, and I did, I ought not to have been so afraid of death. The unhappiness I’m in need of and longing for is different. It’s of a kind that will make me hunger for suffering and lust for death. That’s the sort of unhappiness, or happiness, I’m waiting for.”
— Nov 20, 2025 05:25PM
Riyah Neck
is 51% done
“Dancing called for the sort of qualities I totally lacked: gaiety, innocence, nonchalance, verve. Ah well, wasn’t that what I’d known all along?”
— Nov 19, 2025 10:19PM
