Showing posts with label McClelland & Stewart. Show all posts
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"—and I wept until I experienced a powerful, almost sexual relief."

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Transcription by Ben Lerner

 

"As Philip Ziegler wryly notes, "it is a curious and somewhat humiliating reflection on human nature that the European, overwhelmed by what was probably the greatest natural calamity ever to strike his [sic] continent, reacted by seeking to rival the cruelty of nature in the hideousness of his own, man-made atrocities.'" 

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy

 

"Soon after this, Katie and I would lose touch. Her mother got a promotion at the nail polish factory, and they moved out of the neighbourhood. Maybe it was that. Maybe it was high school. I don't think too hard on it -- it was the way it was. We lose each other, or the way we know each other gets lost."

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How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

"Amemus eterna et non peritura. Let us love what is eternal and not what is transient."
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All That Man Is by David Szalay

"On the one hand, I felt a jealous anger rising within me, a desire for her to desire me, the only kind of desire, Alex had once told me during a fight, I was able to sustain."

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