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““We did agree, that you wouldn’t do that.” “I have to do what I love, Wilf. I wasn’t loving not doing it.”
The Peripheral — William Gibson
The Peripheral — William Gibson
December 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
““We did agree, that you wouldn’t do that.” “I have to do what I love, Wilf. I wasn’t loving not doing it.”
The Peripheral — William Gibson
The Peripheral — William Gibson
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.”
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder
December 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.”
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder
“A world full of patriots may be a world full of strife. The more intensely a nation believes in its patriotism, the more fanatically indifferent it will become to the damage suffered by other nations.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
December 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“A world full of patriots may be a world full of strife. The more intensely a nation believes in its patriotism, the more fanatically indifferent it will become to the damage suffered by other nations.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“we tend too much to think of language as being solid as a dictionary, with a granite-like permanence, rather than as the rampant restless sea of metaphor which it is.”
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“we tend too much to think of language as being solid as a dictionary, with a granite-like permanence, rather than as the rampant restless sea of metaphor which it is.”
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
“Blake was a great artist, but a man who sees visions on the stairs in an ordinary house in south London is clearly out of his mind. Sorry, no. Just out of your mind.”
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe — Richard Holloway
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe — Richard Holloway
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“Blake was a great artist, but a man who sees visions on the stairs in an ordinary house in south London is clearly out of his mind. Sorry, no. Just out of your mind.”
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe — Richard Holloway
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe — Richard Holloway
“The drugs, in Rome’s opinion, are born of the probably-American idea that those in the developed world have an inalienable right to be contented every hour of their existence.”
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“The drugs, in Rome’s opinion, are born of the probably-American idea that those in the developed world have an inalienable right to be contented every hour of their existence.”
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
“The condemnation of one part of the working class to enforced idleness by the over-work of the other part, and vice versa, becomes a means of enriching the individual capitalists,”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“The condemnation of one part of the working class to enforced idleness by the over-work of the other part, and vice versa, becomes a means of enriching the individual capitalists,”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
“If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program,”
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program,”
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
“A world full of patriots may be a world full of strife. The more intensely a nation believes in its patriotism, the more fanatically indifferent it will become to the damage suffered by other nations.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
December 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“A world full of patriots may be a world full of strife. The more intensely a nation believes in its patriotism, the more fanatically indifferent it will become to the damage suffered by other nations.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“bad dreams trapped like astral rising damp in the foundations.”
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“bad dreams trapped like astral rising damp in the foundations.”
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
Jerusalem — Alan Moore
“Corporations that run private prisons and detention centers made over five billion dollars in combined annual profits in the United States over the past decade.”
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
“Corporations that run private prisons and detention centers made over five billion dollars in combined annual profits in the United States over the past decade.”
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
“managed to smile, thinking how Modesty is Vanity’s craftier stepbrother.”
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“managed to smile, thinking how Modesty is Vanity’s craftier stepbrother.”
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
“Kid looked up and let the title of his book embed that part of his consciousness reserved for reality, while he expunged it from the part called dream.”
Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson
Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson
December 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“Kid looked up and let the title of his book embed that part of his consciousness reserved for reality, while he expunged it from the part called dream.”
Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson
Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson
“History was going to go like this: lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, win.”
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“History was going to go like this: lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, win.”
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
“it really is astonishing that we can read at all.”
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“it really is astonishing that we can read at all.”
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
“Yet it is as true, or false, to say that the brain “feeds itself” through the stomach as that the stomach “evolves” a brain at its upper entrance to get more food.”
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Alan Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Alan Watts
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“Yet it is as true, or false, to say that the brain “feeds itself” through the stomach as that the stomach “evolves” a brain at its upper entrance to get more food.”
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Alan Watts
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are — Alan Watts
“In all the trials I witnessed I never saw an Indian juror. They say that the law is getting ever more enlightened and liberal and color-blind. That is bullshit.”
Lakota Woman — Richard Erdoes Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
Lakota Woman — Richard Erdoes Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
December 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“In all the trials I witnessed I never saw an Indian juror. They say that the law is getting ever more enlightened and liberal and color-blind. That is bullshit.”
Lakota Woman — Richard Erdoes Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
Lakota Woman — Richard Erdoes Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
“The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
December 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
“We have reached a stage in evolution which is not the final stage. We must pass through it quickly, for if we do not, most of us will perish by the way and the others will be lost in a forest of doubt and fear.”
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“We have reached a stage in evolution which is not the final stage. We must pass through it quickly, for if we do not, most of us will perish by the way and the others will be lost in a forest of doubt and fear.”
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
“The rate of surplus-value is therefore an exact expression for the degree of exploitation of labour-power by capital, or of the worker by the capitalist.”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“The rate of surplus-value is therefore an exact expression for the degree of exploitation of labour-power by capital, or of the worker by the capitalist.”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
“something about them suggesting massive insurance coverage.”
White Noise — Don DeLillo
White Noise — Don DeLillo
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“something about them suggesting massive insurance coverage.”
White Noise — Don DeLillo
White Noise — Don DeLillo
“stiff as Medusa's optometrist.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
December 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“stiff as Medusa's optometrist.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
“We can’t really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we’re forced to stumble in someone else’s.”
Shantaram: A Novel — Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram: A Novel — Gregory David Roberts
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“We can’t really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we’re forced to stumble in someone else’s.”
Shantaram: A Novel — Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram: A Novel — Gregory David Roberts
“If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program,”
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program,”
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl