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22 JUL 24: "Mr. Harrington's Washing" ***
The final story of the three-story Russian series is "Mr. Harrington's Washing." Ashenden's chance acquaintance, who was introduced in the first story, meets Ashenden's former lover from the second story. The ...more "
22 JUL 24: "Mr. Harrington's Washing" ***
The final story of the three-story Russian series is "Mr. Harrington's Washing." Ashenden's chance acquaintance, who was introduced in the first story, meets Ashenden's former lover from the second story. The ...more "
I took a packet of fresh fifties out of my stash. I studied my little collection of improvised business cards. Title Research Associates looked good enough, and there were six crisp clean ones left.
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“An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The”
― A Pair of Blue Eyes
― A Pair of Blue Eyes
“Don Pepe was a Mexican man: a fatalist. He meant to impart much more than comfort. He meant that all good things would also end. All joy would crumble. And death would visit each and every one of them. He meant that regimes and ancient orders and cultures would all collapse. The world as we know it becomes a new world overnight.”
― Into the Beautiful North
― Into the Beautiful North
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one. In the very same way, if enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one, and the political class will have to respond, both by making resources available and by bending the free market rules that have proven so pliable when elite interests are in peril.”
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
― This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
“It was leap and die or live and be haunted by the ability to choose. Which when I think about it, might be one definition of consciousness. I pitied just about everybody.”
― The Painter
― The Painter
“This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war.”
― The Executioner's Song
― The Executioner's Song
The Importance of Reading Ernest
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A book club for those who want to read and talk about Hemingway's work. We'll read a new novel or short story collection every month and talk about it ...more
A book club for those who want to read and talk about Hemingway's work. We'll read a new novel or short story collection every month and talk about it ...more
SCOTUS History and Philosophy
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A discussion of cases and issues and books related to the U.S. Note that this group is basically defunct. I am referring people to Alan Johnson's very ...more
A discussion of cases and issues and books related to the U.S. Note that this group is basically defunct. I am referring people to Alan Johnson's very ...more
Should a Book be Judged by the Author's Personal Morality
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If I’m not mistaken, one of the issues surrounding the GR take-down was whether a reviewer could ignore the content of a book and leave one-star and n ...more
If I’m not mistaken, one of the issues surrounding the GR take-down was whether a reviewer could ignore the content of a book and leave one-star and n ...more
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