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Donald E. Brown
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Tolstoy’s Resurrection takes us on a journey through imperial Russia’s corrupt and dehumanizing social structure, particularly the judicial and penal system.

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February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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“Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognized”

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February 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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“Submission…is the price of sanity.” The following passage from George Orwell’s novel 1984 features an exchange between Winston, disillusioned with political tyranny, as he is being tortured by O’Bri...
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February 1, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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Reading has shown me the value of dwelling upon the words and deeds of people long dead who spoke and wrote in tongues now equally dead.

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January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Reading can form the mind and light the path for rediscovering and understanding the voices of the past.

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January 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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For me this quarterly has and continues to contain a treasure trove of thought provoking stories, passages, and essays.

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January 28, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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“..with his beauty, his patience, and his genius for evil, I..watched him pass by many a time in his black Sunday suit smelling of mothballs. His name..Carter.”

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January 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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“Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of the forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe,”

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January 26, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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The members of local bird community are active today.

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January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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For six decades and two years Sartre has been my go to for clarity and guidance.

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January 25, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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I’m dating myself here, but the Vidal vs Buckley debates of the 60s allowed one to think about, What is truth? How do you recognize truth?

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January 24, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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If I am only able to bring one book during a lengthy solitary stay in a secluded cabin, it would be either of these two translations of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

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January 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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The Beetles were way ahead of their time on this one.
January 23, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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Among my books are philosophers and writers who cared enough about this world to take a pen to paper.

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January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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My books provide me comfort about the world. Each book is a friend who always says the same thing that seems to mean something new.

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January 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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John Milton began losing his sight while writing Paradise Lost. In 1652 he became totally blind; an affliction he felt was unjust and undeserved.

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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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The truths embodied in literature vary for different readers at different times in their lives.

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January 20, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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This is the only life I have so I try not to belittle virtue or pass my life in indolence.

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January 19, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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Reflecting on the misfortunes that have befallen societies to act better for the future.

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January 19, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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To be fully human, I opine, is to wonder, to probe, and seek to understand—even if definitive answers or truth remains elusive.

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January 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Readers are explorers and observers.

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January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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“..the fate of an undertaking not grounded in knowledge and experience will result in errors and extremes..”

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January 15, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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I’ve learned to appreciate the ever-changing life that surrounds me.

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January 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Readers of cultivated taste surrounds themselves whatever advances their culture.

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January 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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In the midst of tyranny stand up for what you believe. Each one, teach one. Repost

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January 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM