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Avid reader and gardener. Gardening in USDA zones 5 and 9 and reading everywhere and inbetween.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#TheNames
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#TheNames
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
#V #ThomasPynchon
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#V #ThomasPynchon
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
Finished #Neuromancer
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Finished #Neuromancer
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer…And there is that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous- that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer…And there is that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous- that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer…And there is that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous- that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer…And there is that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous- that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…I don't know which country I'm in now, since the border has vanished; unused, it's been expunged. They're playing a requiem on the radio.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…I don't know which country I'm in now, since the border has vanished; unused, it's been expunged. They're playing a requiem on the radio.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…I don't know which country I'm in now, since the border has vanished; unused, it's been expunged. They're playing a requiem on the radio.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…I don't know which country I'm in now, since the border has vanished; unused, it's been expunged. They're playing a requiem on the radio.
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you…a vain attempt….
#JosephConrad
He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you…a vain attempt….
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you…a vain attempt….
#JosephConrad
He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you…a vain attempt….
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire…that swayed and drove men…But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that…I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
#JosephConrad
I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire…that swayed and drove men…But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that…I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire…that swayed and drove men…But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that…I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
#JosephConrad
I've seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire…that swayed and drove men…But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that…I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“When you walk into a room, do you tend to head for the middle or the edges?" What room? And when? Is the room empty, or are there plush red couches in it? What about the windows? What kind of view do they have?
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“When you walk into a room, do you tend to head for the middle or the edges?" What room? And when? Is the room empty, or are there plush red couches in it? What about the windows? What kind of view do they have?
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“When you walk into a room, do you tend to head for the middle or the edges?" What room? And when? Is the room empty, or are there plush red couches in it? What about the windows? What kind of view do they have?
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“When you walk into a room, do you tend to head for the middle or the edges?" What room? And when? Is the room empty, or are there plush red couches in it? What about the windows? What kind of view do they have?
Finished #TheLandinWinter
#AndrewMiller
“Stay here…It will be a mess,"he said.
"…does that matter?"
…This was,and was not quite,the woman who had walked into the shade of the trees that afternoon at the tennis party,feigning surprise…He nodded and picked up his bag, wondering what he had lost,who.
#AndrewMiller
“Stay here…It will be a mess,"he said.
"…does that matter?"
…This was,and was not quite,the woman who had walked into the shade of the trees that afternoon at the tennis party,feigning surprise…He nodded and picked up his bag, wondering what he had lost,who.
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Finished #TheLandinWinter
#AndrewMiller
“Stay here…It will be a mess,"he said.
"…does that matter?"
…This was,and was not quite,the woman who had walked into the shade of the trees that afternoon at the tennis party,feigning surprise…He nodded and picked up his bag, wondering what he had lost,who.
#AndrewMiller
“Stay here…It will be a mess,"he said.
"…does that matter?"
…This was,and was not quite,the woman who had walked into the shade of the trees that afternoon at the tennis party,feigning surprise…He nodded and picked up his bag, wondering what he had lost,who.
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
They were no colonists…They were conquerors…They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
#JosephConrad
They were no colonists…They were conquerors…They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
They were no colonists…They were conquerors…They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
#JosephConrad
They were no colonists…They were conquerors…They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
That evening is the limit of the world, and I've just happened upon it, by accident…My own presence is the only thing with a distinct outline now, an outline that quivers and undulates…And all of a sudden I know: there's nothing for it now, here I am.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
That evening is the limit of the world, and I've just happened upon it, by accident…My own presence is the only thing with a distinct outline now, an outline that quivers and undulates…And all of a sudden I know: there's nothing for it now, here I am.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
That evening is the limit of the world, and I've just happened upon it, by accident…My own presence is the only thing with a distinct outline now, an outline that quivers and undulates…And all of a sudden I know: there's nothing for it now, here I am.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
That evening is the limit of the world, and I've just happened upon it, by accident…My own presence is the only thing with a distinct outline now, an outline that quivers and undulates…And all of a sudden I know: there's nothing for it now, here I am.