📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• And on the whole, I daresay, society was not much the worse because Ben had not six months of it at the treadmill, for his views of depredation were narrow, and the House of Correction might have enlarged them.

  an excerpt from Adam Bede, written by George Eliot in 1859

• In the corpse we love, it is the likeness we see—it is the likeness, which makes itself felt the more keenly because something else was and is not.

  an excerpt from Adam Bede, written by George Eliot in 1859

• If a man had got no feelings, it ’ud be as good as a demonstration to listen to what goes on in court; but a tender heart makes one stupid.

  an excerpt from Adam Bede, written by George Eliot in 1859

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• My strongest association of this book is reading it over a summer break in college. I was babysitting for Aunt Dale, and I was reading this late at night when she came back home. She asked what I was reading, what it was about: uh, love? death? I guess? I said. "Oh Matt," she said. "You just need to get laid."

  an note about Residence on Earth, written by Pablo Neruda in 1945

• Whitman always left me a little cold, but then I heard a long spoken recording of Song of Myself, and that was a revelation. This is stuff that needs to heard and said, poetry that only works if you (even imagining) deliver it through a body. Now I get it.

  an note about Leaves of Grass, written by Walt Whitman in 1892

• Still at the beginning of this, but its fun so far; written in extreme High Fantasy style, with a formal, mythic kind of pacing that feels like the appropriate tone for something that involves wizards and dragons and mythical beasts in the first few pages.

  an note about The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, written by Patricia A. McKillip in 1974

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