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I read Simon Brett “Murder in the Museum.” Kind of meh on the characters, but I’d try a different Brett mystery series if you’re recommending. #booksky 📚💙

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In the latest new episode, so many names for cardboard tubes and the sounds they make! waywordradio.org/smack-dab/ And lots more — listen right smack now!

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@waywordradio.org I started to confirm my own theory about “Brownie points” and found like 5 other etymological explanations that all seemed plausible. Can more than one things be true about brownie points?

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When you read a book at age 50, and realize in hindsight, that when you read it the first time, at age 14, it actually completely transformed your life and future. #BookSky #Kerouac

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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." — Jorge Luis Borges. #amwriting 🖋️📚💙

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This was written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky in 1939 in a short story called ‘Yellow Coal’.

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The Platonic ideal of philosophical writing is cold rationalism from the pen of a warm person: Annette Baier, Korsgaard, Scheman. I can’t help but be taken in by someone calmly destroying reductive empiricist frameworks in the name of clear but flexible human(e) ones.

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Tried to get deflowered on Brave New World via audiobook. Can’t follow, lots of characters and little plot. Have to go to analog version and start over. Are there novels you couldn’t finish listening and got into reading pages o.g. ? #booksky🖋️📚💙

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Also have to show this new edition I saw at the bookstore cause the cover? The ILLUSTRATIONS? Obsessed #booksky 💙📚🖋️

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We got this feedback recently and it makes my librarian heart feel so good. “I love your library! You are so progressive. We are a family with same sex parents, and we feel so included." I love my job. #booksky

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" I love the great despisers because they are the great reverers and arrows of longing for the other shore. " Zarathustra prologue somewhere

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What's true should show. Since it's felt anyway. -Susan Sontag, Death Kit #booksky 🖋️📚💙

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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. ― Nietzsche #philsky #philosophy

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Some people are their lives. Others merely inhabit their lives. Like insecure tenants, never knowing exactly the extent of their property or when the lease will expire. -Susan Sontag, Death Kit #booksky 🖋️📚💙

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North Woods occupys special-novel space where what it means feels obvious and indefinite. I'll say it's about ghosts in the American narrative, haunting us generationally in expressions of property, ambition, nurture, lust, avarice, fallacies, and optimism. Also, trees and wild animals🐆. #booksky🖋️📚💙

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This Lyft driver subjecting me to the modern-gospel radio station is religious harassment. Is it worth saying something?

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Geoge Eliot's Daniel Deronda bit of mess by today's standards of consistent tone btwn drollness and Zionism. Still, her writing this epic beautifully with compelling characters in longhand is impossible to imagine via Word™️. First time Eliot—I 💙. Which novel do you insist I read next?🖋️📚💙 #booksky

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(Early) #Jazz. And #quantum mechanics. And Werner #Heisenberg. This captures the spirit of what I have written about in 'Collective' www.pbs.org/video/jazz-l... #Booksky #writing #philosophy

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From 3 of 81 ... Inequality exists because one Does not know her greatness She believes through suffering She will find worth The internal foe Has convinced her she is worthless Link 2 #poetry & #spokenword 3speak.tv/watch?v=pryd... #enlightenment #psychology #philosophy #healing

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Susan Sontag's first novel, The Benefactor, lists an alt title, Confessions of a Self-Addicted Man. His dreams become his real life and his real life becomes a shocking, surreal, and darkly comic dream. Sontag's opus 1 on subjectivity and the human ambition to resolve desire and lack. #booksky🖋️📚💙

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hwatevah one mahht say for Lee and his ordahs, and this and that military wisdom and so on, one must agree that Pickett's chahge was ah prahme example of "livin mas". unfortunately for the men undah his command it also led to dyin mas

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Despite the force with which I press myself against the line, I cannot jump outside the circle of my consciousness. But I can step further inside. I can find a smaller circle within the larger circle, and climb into that. -Sontag, The Benefactor

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If I cannot be outside myself, I will be inside. I will look out at myself as my own landscape. - Sontag, The Benefactor

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Oh, he dreams in footnotes, and they run away with all his brains.

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#OTD 1943, German #philosopher Helene Stöcker died in exile in NYC. As punishment for her international work in feminism and pacifism, Nazis had robbed her of her degrees, her citizenship, & her assets. Here's a piece I wrote about her legacy, good and bad. psyche.co/ideas/how-th... #philsky #wwii

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Intriguing Element on Heidegger’s critique of temporality in Hegel. As always, the fundamental question at issue is, “What is the human being?” Not their dueling conceptions of time per se. #philsky

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“There is something it is distinctively like to be male or female, because a crucial—and overwhelmingly obvious—aspect of what it is like to be human is bodiliness,” writes Sophie Grace Chappell. | https://buff.ly/33TpYQY #philosophy #consci

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The great grouch of philosophy, Arthur #Schopenhauer, was born on this date in 1788. Four our episode in 2005, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, @amystanden.bsky.social, to the opera to explore some of Schopenhauer's influence: youtu.be/PAAkiRJn3CQ #PhilSky #philosophy

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My leitmotif for 2025. If cis straight people have decided that us Queers don’t qualify as human, I’m going out with a Weimar bang…

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#booksky Ben Okri, multi-award-winning novelist and poet, reflects on the books in his life, including having his heart broken by Animal Farm, imagining Ibsen and Chekhov characters as Nigerian, and ditching physics for Plato. 🖋️📚💙 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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The long-awaited new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of four women in Nigeria, Guinea and the USA. Covering themes of gender and power and the desire to be known and loved. Very excited to read an advance copy from a favourite author. Published on 4th March #books 💙📚🖋️

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I’m not well studied on bisexual literary fiction. Andre Aciman’s Enigma Variations, had sections of longueurs, but it’s use of bi-ness as a metaphor for life’s what ifs? pays off. What are some other bi novels?

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"There are a lot of reasons you may want to download your ebooks, but the basic argument for it is simple: if you buy something, you should be able to do what you want with it." New rules Feb. 26th! #booksy 💙📚 #nonfiction 💡📚 #literaryfiction 🖋️📚 #audiobooks #avidreader lithub.com/next-week-am...

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A Very Serious guide to figuring out whether the book you’re reading is literary fiction or genre fiction https://buff.ly/42QxKHn

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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"If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting for both of us." --E.M. Forster #ARoomWithAView #Life #Excitement #Love #classicbooks #booksky #BookQuotes #books #RMCbooks Get now: https://a.co/d/3AoRbqz

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