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“Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul.”
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul.”
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
The Bone Clocks: A Novel — David Mitchell
“High-frequency trading has been put forth as an example of computers out-achieving the market proper, but instead of improving the system it’s just been used to take rents on every exchange.”
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“High-frequency trading has been put forth as an example of computers out-achieving the market proper, but instead of improving the system it’s just been used to take rents on every exchange.”
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson
“merit. In every other respect it is abominable.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“merit. In every other respect it is abominable.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has evertrusted its artists?
But our society, being troubled and bewildered, seeking guidance, sometimes puts an entirely mistaken trust in its artists, using them as prophets and futurologists.”
The left hand of darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
But our society, being troubled and bewildered, seeking guidance, sometimes puts an entirely mistaken trust in its artists, using them as prophets and futurologists.”
The left hand of darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has evertrusted its artists?
But our society, being troubled and bewildered, seeking guidance, sometimes puts an entirely mistaken trust in its artists, using them as prophets and futurologists.”
The left hand of darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
But our society, being troubled and bewildered, seeking guidance, sometimes puts an entirely mistaken trust in its artists, using them as prophets and futurologists.”
The left hand of darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
“merit. In every other respect it is abominable.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“merit. In every other respect it is abominable.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.”
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins
“it is the most efficient means, in calories of energy per person per mile, ever devised for moving bodies—even”
Ecotopia: A Novel — Ernest Callenbach
Ecotopia: A Novel — Ernest Callenbach
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
“it is the most efficient means, in calories of energy per person per mile, ever devised for moving bodies—even”
Ecotopia: A Novel — Ernest Callenbach
Ecotopia: A Novel — Ernest Callenbach
“can you make a life out of books and a cat?”
The Female Man — Joanna Russ
The Female Man — Joanna Russ
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“can you make a life out of books and a cat?”
The Female Man — Joanna Russ
The Female Man — Joanna Russ
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
“borders are the nexus of most systems of oppression.”
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“borders are the nexus of most systems of oppression.”
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
“Voluntarily or involuntarily, of choice or of necessity, most moderns lead a nerve-racking life and are continually too tired to be capable of enjoyment without the help of alcohol.”
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Voluntarily or involuntarily, of choice or of necessity, most moderns lead a nerve-racking life and are continually too tired to be capable of enjoyment without the help of alcohol.”
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
The Conquest of Happiness — Bertrand Russell and Daniel C. Dennett
““to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.”
Island — Aldous Huxley
Island — Aldous Huxley
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
““to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.”
Island — Aldous Huxley
Island — Aldous Huxley
“IN THE DARK the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.”
White Noise — Don DeLillo
White Noise — Don DeLillo
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“IN THE DARK the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.”
White Noise — Don DeLillo
White Noise — Don DeLillo
“Whoever camps for a week in summer by the shore of a pond, needs only bury a pail of water a few feet deep in the shade of his camp to be independent of the luxury of ice.”
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Whoever camps for a week in summer by the shore of a pond, needs only bury a pail of water a few feet deep in the shade of his camp to be independent of the luxury of ice.”
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
“Force is the midwife of every old society which is pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“Force is the midwife of every old society which is pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
“The desperation might be worse now, but not the corruption. The drug trade, he conceded, was something new, but the real burden of the drug trade on Mexican society (and on American society) was overstated.”
2666: A Novel — Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer
2666: A Novel — Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
“The desperation might be worse now, but not the corruption. The drug trade, he conceded, was something new, but the real burden of the drug trade on Mexican society (and on American society) was overstated.”
2666: A Novel — Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer
2666: A Novel — Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer
““to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.”
Island — Aldous Huxley
Island — Aldous Huxley
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
““to think that people complain about modern life having no meaning! Look at what life was like when it did have a meaning. A tale told by an idiot or a tale told by a Calvinist? Give me the idiot every time.”
Island — Aldous Huxley
Island — Aldous Huxley
“The International Labor Organization estimates that there are eighty-six million migrant workers across the world.)”
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“The International Labor Organization estimates that there are eighty-six million migrant workers across the world.)”
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
“Railways are at present controlled by the State, since rates are fixed by law; and it is clear that if they were uncontrolled, they would acquire a dangerous degree of power. Such”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“Railways are at present controlled by the State, since rates are fixed by law; and it is clear that if they were uncontrolled, they would acquire a dangerous degree of power. Such”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program,”
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program,”
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
“obloquy”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
November 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“obloquy”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“By ruining handicraft production of finished articles in other countries, machinery forcibly converts them into fields for the production of its raw material.”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“By ruining handicraft production of finished articles in other countries, machinery forcibly converts them into fields for the production of its raw material.”
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx
“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
Death's End — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
Death's End — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.”
Death's End — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
Death's End — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
“The State punishes, with impartial rigor, both those who kill their compatriots and those who refuse to kill foreigners. On the whole, the latter is considered the graver crime.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“The State punishes, with impartial rigor, both those who kill their compatriots and those who refuse to kill foreigners. On the whole, the latter is considered the graver crime.”
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell
“Along the River During the Qingming Festival.”
The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Along the River During the Qingming Festival.”
The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu