I like big books and I cannot lie
96% complete! Eivind (like the Terrible) has read 96 of 100 books.
We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really …
In spite of the Puritan-Yankee equation of virtue with well-being, Negroes had excellent reasons for doubting that money was made or kept by any very striking adherence to the Christian virtues; it certainly did not work that way for black Christians.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered …
We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation
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Herzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life. Thrown out of his ex-wife’s house, …
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after …
An absolutely delightful read.
@ejnro Fantastisk bok. Jeg har nok venta lenge i kø på biblioteket, for jeg husker ikke å ha stilt meg i køen, men glad det er min tur nå :)
Herzog is a man seeking balance, trying to regain a foothold on his life. Thrown out of his ex-wife’s house, …
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after …
Perhaps (I hypothesised freely) the Prophet believed that the fifteen people who inhabited my Halls should be counted as one set of People, while in the Far Distant Halls there lived another set and he ought to be counted as one of them. Perhaps among his own People he was the Third Person or the Tenth. Perhaps he was even some dizzyingly high number like the Seventy-Fifth Person!
But I digress into what is surely fantasy.
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after …
I owe so much to the Other’s generosity. Without him I would not sleep snug and warm in my sleeping bag in Winter. I would not have notebooks in which to record my thoughts.
That being said, it occurs to me to wonder why it is that the House gives a greater variety of objects to the Other than to me, providing him with sleeping bags, shoes, plastic bowls, cheese sandwiches, notebooks, slices of Christmas cake etc., etc., whereas me it mostly gives fish.
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after …
Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.
@BEZORP@books.theunseen.city Thank you. I really am so far :)
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after …
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after …
Since the World began it is certain that there have existed fifteen people. Possibly there have been more; but I am a scientist and must proceed according to the evidence. Of the fifteen people whose existence is verifiable, only Myself and the Other are now living.
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.
In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear …
