Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
— C.S. Lewis
Tag: literature
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April 9th, 2012 1:04pm
It’s National Library Week! Here’s the Stockholm Public Library.
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April 9th, 2012 12:45pm
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.— Stephen King – The Dead Zone. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)
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April 5th, 2012 11:30am
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
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April 3rd, 2012 8:07pm
Philip K. Dick:Ubik
Just finished reading this the other day; it’s a really great mind-bender, with a healthy dose of satire and good humor. One of the best examples I’ve read of an author diving into the nearly absurd without losing narrative cohesion. All you Sci-Fi fans should check this out!
Man In the High Tower, The Three Sitmata of Palmer Eldritch, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer are three other examples of PKD’s amazing ability to dive into the insane, while still having things make sense enough to follow.
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March 31st, 2012 2:17pm
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March 30th, 2012 9:57pm
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March 29th, 2012 8:44pm
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March 29th, 2012 7:55pm
