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Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 6d

🧵 A thread of 180 book summaries

Weekly Recap 18 (29 Sep - 5 Oct'25) | Watch Book Summaries (171-180)

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190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Intro
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Genre: American, Classics, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, New York, Romance

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Quote 10:
“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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Quote 9:
“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 8:
“But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 7:
“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 6:
“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 5:
“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 4:
“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 3:
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 2:
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

Quote 1:
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”

- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 7h

190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Quotes
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Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 8h

190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Summary (6 min)

Book at a glance: It explores love and societal constraints in 19th-century New York, following Newland Archer’s dilemma between passion and duty.

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Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 8h

190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)

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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton explores love and societal constraints in 19th-century New York, following Newland Archer’s dilemma between passion and duty.

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Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

189: The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Intro
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Genre: 20th Century, British Literature, Classics, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, Short Stories

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Quote 8:
“The Machine hums! Did you know that? Its hum penetrates our blood, and may even guide our thoughts. Who knows! I was getting beyond its power.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

Quote 7:
“The second great development was the re-establishment of religion.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

Quote 6:
“You, who have just crossed the Roof of the World, will not want to hear an account of the little hills that I saw

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

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Quote 5:
“Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

Quote 4:
“Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

Quote 3:
“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

Quote 2:
“Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

Quote 1:
“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.”

- EM Forster, The Machine Stops

Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 21h

189: The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Quotes
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Celsius 233 @celsius233books.bsky.social · 22h

189: The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Summary (7 min)

Book at a glance: It is a dystopian tale where humanity lives underground, dependent on a machine that ultimately begins to fail.

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