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Six-Hundred and Fifteen - London Orbital, Iain Sinclair.
"... the idealised borough. Without crime and drugs and craziness. Without sound or smell. Drills or dogs. The secret city in which a couple will sit smiling on a sofa: for ever. In which there is no weather, just drawings of weather."
Six-Hundred and Fifteen - London Orbital, Iain Sinclair.
"... the idealised borough. Without crime and drugs and craziness. Without sound or smell. Drills or dogs. The secret city in which a couple will sit smiling on a sofa: for ever. In which there is no weather, just drawings of weather."
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Six-Hundred and Fifteen - London Orbital, Iain Sinclair.
"... the idealised borough. Without crime and drugs and craziness. Without sound or smell. Drills or dogs. The secret city in which a couple will sit smiling on a sofa: for ever. In which there is no weather, just drawings of weather."
Six-Hundred and Fifteen - London Orbital, Iain Sinclair.
"... the idealised borough. Without crime and drugs and craziness. Without sound or smell. Drills or dogs. The secret city in which a couple will sit smiling on a sofa: for ever. In which there is no weather, just drawings of weather."
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Six-Hundred and Fourteen - Beckett's Dying Words, Christopher Ricks.
"one can't go on one can't stop put a stop"
Six-Hundred and Fourteen - Beckett's Dying Words, Christopher Ricks.
"one can't go on one can't stop put a stop"
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Six-Hundred and Fourteen - Beckett's Dying Words, Christopher Ricks.
"one can't go on one can't stop put a stop"
Six-Hundred and Fourteen - Beckett's Dying Words, Christopher Ricks.
"one can't go on one can't stop put a stop"
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Six-Hundred and Thirteen - Maiden Voyage, Denton Welch.
"Sitting upstairs on the bus I felt light, as if I were hollow and empty. Something inside was churning in me too, like a sea-sickness."
Six-Hundred and Thirteen - Maiden Voyage, Denton Welch.
"Sitting upstairs on the bus I felt light, as if I were hollow and empty. Something inside was churning in me too, like a sea-sickness."
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Six-Hundred and Thirteen - Maiden Voyage, Denton Welch.
"Sitting upstairs on the bus I felt light, as if I were hollow and empty. Something inside was churning in me too, like a sea-sickness."
Six-Hundred and Thirteen - Maiden Voyage, Denton Welch.
"Sitting upstairs on the bus I felt light, as if I were hollow and empty. Something inside was churning in me too, like a sea-sickness."
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Six-Hundred and Twelve - Los, A Chapter - Helene Cixous.
"... I'm sure I hadn't feared for him, I now realise that I thought of him as immortal, someone I had no fear of losing ..."
Reflections on love and loss. Fragile threads form a delicate web. Human and heartbreaking.
Six-Hundred and Twelve - Los, A Chapter - Helene Cixous.
"... I'm sure I hadn't feared for him, I now realise that I thought of him as immortal, someone I had no fear of losing ..."
Reflections on love and loss. Fragile threads form a delicate web. Human and heartbreaking.
October 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Six-Hundred and Twelve - Los, A Chapter - Helene Cixous.
"... I'm sure I hadn't feared for him, I now realise that I thought of him as immortal, someone I had no fear of losing ..."
Reflections on love and loss. Fragile threads form a delicate web. Human and heartbreaking.
Six-Hundred and Twelve - Los, A Chapter - Helene Cixous.
"... I'm sure I hadn't feared for him, I now realise that I thought of him as immortal, someone I had no fear of losing ..."
Reflections on love and loss. Fragile threads form a delicate web. Human and heartbreaking.
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Six-Hundred and Eleven - The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig.
"War was here again, a war more terrible and far-reaching than any conflict had ever been on earth before."
How quickly things can fall apart.
Six-Hundred and Eleven - The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig.
"War was here again, a war more terrible and far-reaching than any conflict had ever been on earth before."
How quickly things can fall apart.
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Six-Hundred and Eleven - The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig.
"War was here again, a war more terrible and far-reaching than any conflict had ever been on earth before."
How quickly things can fall apart.
Six-Hundred and Eleven - The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig.
"War was here again, a war more terrible and far-reaching than any conflict had ever been on earth before."
How quickly things can fall apart.
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Six-Hundred and Ten - Omnibus, B.S. Johnson
"Yes, yes, all those loves and wished for loves, I need never think of you again ... you will never enter my thoughts again in the same way ... I am glad to be rid of you."
Three novels by the great B.S. Johnson. Basically, amazing.
Six-Hundred and Ten - Omnibus, B.S. Johnson
"Yes, yes, all those loves and wished for loves, I need never think of you again ... you will never enter my thoughts again in the same way ... I am glad to be rid of you."
Three novels by the great B.S. Johnson. Basically, amazing.
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Six-Hundred and Ten - Omnibus, B.S. Johnson
"Yes, yes, all those loves and wished for loves, I need never think of you again ... you will never enter my thoughts again in the same way ... I am glad to be rid of you."
Three novels by the great B.S. Johnson. Basically, amazing.
Six-Hundred and Ten - Omnibus, B.S. Johnson
"Yes, yes, all those loves and wished for loves, I need never think of you again ... you will never enter my thoughts again in the same way ... I am glad to be rid of you."
Three novels by the great B.S. Johnson. Basically, amazing.
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SIX-HUNDRED AND Nine - Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
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"What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past?"
Roland Barthes writes about himself. Or, often, the impossibility of writing about himself.
SIX-HUNDRED AND Nine - Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
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"What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past?"
Roland Barthes writes about himself. Or, often, the impossibility of writing about himself.
October 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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SIX-HUNDRED AND Nine - Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
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"What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past?"
Roland Barthes writes about himself. Or, often, the impossibility of writing about himself.
SIX-HUNDRED AND Nine - Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes
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"What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past?"
Roland Barthes writes about himself. Or, often, the impossibility of writing about himself.
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Six-Hundred and Eight - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.
"" We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner ...""
Austen again. Fantastic and funny as usual.
Six-Hundred and Eight - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.
"" We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner ...""
Austen again. Fantastic and funny as usual.
September 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Six-Hundred and Eight - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.
"" We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner ...""
Austen again. Fantastic and funny as usual.
Six-Hundred and Eight - Mansfield Park, Jane Austen.
"" We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner ...""
Austen again. Fantastic and funny as usual.
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Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.
"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."
Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.
Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.
"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."
Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.
"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."
Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.
Six-Hundred and Seven - Valis, Philip K. Dick.
"I am, by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy."
Fantasies have a lot to answer for. This is a rollicking and very entertaining bok.
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Six-Hundred and Six - The Dyer's Hand, W.H. Auden.
"To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally."
A wonderful mind.
Six-Hundred and Six - The Dyer's Hand, W.H. Auden.
"To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally."
A wonderful mind.
September 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Six-Hundred and Six - The Dyer's Hand, W.H. Auden.
"To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally."
A wonderful mind.
Six-Hundred and Six - The Dyer's Hand, W.H. Auden.
"To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally."
A wonderful mind.
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Six-Hundred and Five - Milton's Grand Style, Christopher Ricks.
"To me, Milton is a great poet ... comparable as it is to Shakespeare and Dante."
Why did Milton need defending? Well, it seems he did. And that
spurred Ricks to write this grand book.
Six-Hundred and Five - Milton's Grand Style, Christopher Ricks.
"To me, Milton is a great poet ... comparable as it is to Shakespeare and Dante."
Why did Milton need defending? Well, it seems he did. And that
spurred Ricks to write this grand book.
August 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Six-Hundred and Five - Milton's Grand Style, Christopher Ricks.
"To me, Milton is a great poet ... comparable as it is to Shakespeare and Dante."
Why did Milton need defending? Well, it seems he did. And that
spurred Ricks to write this grand book.
Six-Hundred and Five - Milton's Grand Style, Christopher Ricks.
"To me, Milton is a great poet ... comparable as it is to Shakespeare and Dante."
Why did Milton need defending? Well, it seems he did. And that
spurred Ricks to write this grand book.
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Six-Hundred and Four - Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan.
"Beyond meaning, outside the realm of language, there is no past and no future, hence rock music's obsession with the immediacy of experience, with the now."
A beautiful, wonderful, life-affirming read.
Six-Hundred and Four - Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan.
"Beyond meaning, outside the realm of language, there is no past and no future, hence rock music's obsession with the immediacy of experience, with the now."
A beautiful, wonderful, life-affirming read.
August 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Six-Hundred and Four - Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan.
"Beyond meaning, outside the realm of language, there is no past and no future, hence rock music's obsession with the immediacy of experience, with the now."
A beautiful, wonderful, life-affirming read.
Six-Hundred and Four - Volcanic Tongue, David Keenan.
"Beyond meaning, outside the realm of language, there is no past and no future, hence rock music's obsession with the immediacy of experience, with the now."
A beautiful, wonderful, life-affirming read.
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Six-hundred and Three - Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis.
"Life had always been hard - an existence pared to the bone - and local opinion was that it was getting harder, purely because mysterious changes in the sea were directing fish elsewhere."
Six-hundred and Three - Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis.
"Life had always been hard - an existence pared to the bone - and local opinion was that it was getting harder, purely because mysterious changes in the sea were directing fish elsewhere."
August 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Six-hundred and Three - Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis.
"Life had always been hard - an existence pared to the bone - and local opinion was that it was getting harder, purely because mysterious changes in the sea were directing fish elsewhere."
Six-hundred and Three - Voices of the Old Sea, Norman Lewis.
"Life had always been hard - an existence pared to the bone - and local opinion was that it was getting harder, purely because mysterious changes in the sea were directing fish elsewhere."
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Six-Hundred and Two - A Time in Rome, Elizabeth Bowen.
"Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. Substantiality comes through touch and smell, and taste, and tastes of different dusts."
Six-Hundred and Two - A Time in Rome, Elizabeth Bowen.
"Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. Substantiality comes through touch and smell, and taste, and tastes of different dusts."
August 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Six-Hundred and Two - A Time in Rome, Elizabeth Bowen.
"Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. Substantiality comes through touch and smell, and taste, and tastes of different dusts."
Six-Hundred and Two - A Time in Rome, Elizabeth Bowen.
"Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. Substantiality comes through touch and smell, and taste, and tastes of different dusts."
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Six-Hundred and One - Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.
"This is a story of fame. It is a story of celebrity and consequences. It is, I think, a tragedy."
The second part of this massive, amazing, awesome, tale of strange, extraordinary life.
Six-Hundred and One - Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.
"This is a story of fame. It is a story of celebrity and consequences. It is, I think, a tragedy."
The second part of this massive, amazing, awesome, tale of strange, extraordinary life.
August 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Six-Hundred and One - Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.
"This is a story of fame. It is a story of celebrity and consequences. It is, I think, a tragedy."
The second part of this massive, amazing, awesome, tale of strange, extraordinary life.
Six-Hundred and One - Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.
"This is a story of fame. It is a story of celebrity and consequences. It is, I think, a tragedy."
The second part of this massive, amazing, awesome, tale of strange, extraordinary life.
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Six Hundred - Pariah Genius, Iain Sinclair.
"Memory is contained in architecture: doors, walls, high ceilings. secret spaces without names."
Six Hundred - Pariah Genius, Iain Sinclair.
"Memory is contained in architecture: doors, walls, high ceilings. secret spaces without names."
August 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Six Hundred - Pariah Genius, Iain Sinclair.
"Memory is contained in architecture: doors, walls, high ceilings. secret spaces without names."
Six Hundred - Pariah Genius, Iain Sinclair.
"Memory is contained in architecture: doors, walls, high ceilings. secret spaces without names."
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Nine - Dedalus, Chris McCabe.
"Stephen caught his scornwet eyes and waited. Mulligan's head dipped and resurfaced. silver rivulets of water raced along his plumpwet frame. Wellfed jowls smiled back at him."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Nine - Dedalus, Chris McCabe.
"Stephen caught his scornwet eyes and waited. Mulligan's head dipped and resurfaced. silver rivulets of water raced along his plumpwet frame. Wellfed jowls smiled back at him."
August 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Nine - Dedalus, Chris McCabe.
"Stephen caught his scornwet eyes and waited. Mulligan's head dipped and resurfaced. silver rivulets of water raced along his plumpwet frame. Wellfed jowls smiled back at him."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Nine - Dedalus, Chris McCabe.
"Stephen caught his scornwet eyes and waited. Mulligan's head dipped and resurfaced. silver rivulets of water raced along his plumpwet frame. Wellfed jowls smiled back at him."
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Eight - Another Country, James Baldwin.
"For to remember Leona was also - somehow - to remember the eyes of his mother, the rage of his father, the beauty of his sister."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Eight - Another Country, James Baldwin.
"For to remember Leona was also - somehow - to remember the eyes of his mother, the rage of his father, the beauty of his sister."
July 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Eight - Another Country, James Baldwin.
"For to remember Leona was also - somehow - to remember the eyes of his mother, the rage of his father, the beauty of his sister."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Eight - Another Country, James Baldwin.
"For to remember Leona was also - somehow - to remember the eyes of his mother, the rage of his father, the beauty of his sister."
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Seven - Helene Cixous, Nicholas Royle.
Royle is amazing.
"There is immense tenderness and generosity in Cixous's writing. At the same time there is a constant challenge to the reader to aspire to thinking what he or she has perhaps never previously thought."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Seven - Helene Cixous, Nicholas Royle.
Royle is amazing.
"There is immense tenderness and generosity in Cixous's writing. At the same time there is a constant challenge to the reader to aspire to thinking what he or she has perhaps never previously thought."
July 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Seven - Helene Cixous, Nicholas Royle.
Royle is amazing.
"There is immense tenderness and generosity in Cixous's writing. At the same time there is a constant challenge to the reader to aspire to thinking what he or she has perhaps never previously thought."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Seven - Helene Cixous, Nicholas Royle.
Royle is amazing.
"There is immense tenderness and generosity in Cixous's writing. At the same time there is a constant challenge to the reader to aspire to thinking what he or she has perhaps never previously thought."
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Hamlet in Purgatory, Stephen Greenblatt.
"... Shakespeare achieves the remarkable effect of a nebulous infection, a bleeding of the spectral into the secular and the secular into the spectral."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Hamlet in Purgatory, Stephen Greenblatt.
"... Shakespeare achieves the remarkable effect of a nebulous infection, a bleeding of the spectral into the secular and the secular into the spectral."
July 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Hamlet in Purgatory, Stephen Greenblatt.
"... Shakespeare achieves the remarkable effect of a nebulous infection, a bleeding of the spectral into the secular and the secular into the spectral."
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Hamlet in Purgatory, Stephen Greenblatt.
"... Shakespeare achieves the remarkable effect of a nebulous infection, a bleeding of the spectral into the secular and the secular into the spectral."
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Five Hundred and Ninety-Five - Ulysses, James Joyce.
“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
Five Hundred and Ninety-Five - Ulysses, James Joyce.
“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
June 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Five Hundred and Ninety-Five - Ulysses, James Joyce.
“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
Five Hundred and Ninety-Five - Ulysses, James Joyce.
“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Disowning Knowledge, Stanley Cavell.
Most of it is the essay "The Avoidance of Love". Cavell outlines his idea of how Shakespeare's tragic heroes avoid acknowledging something right in front of their eyes. Challenging, wonderful stuff.
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Disowning Knowledge, Stanley Cavell.
Most of it is the essay "The Avoidance of Love". Cavell outlines his idea of how Shakespeare's tragic heroes avoid acknowledging something right in front of their eyes. Challenging, wonderful stuff.
June 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Disowning Knowledge, Stanley Cavell.
Most of it is the essay "The Avoidance of Love". Cavell outlines his idea of how Shakespeare's tragic heroes avoid acknowledging something right in front of their eyes. Challenging, wonderful stuff.
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Disowning Knowledge, Stanley Cavell.
Most of it is the essay "The Avoidance of Love". Cavell outlines his idea of how Shakespeare's tragic heroes avoid acknowledging something right in front of their eyes. Challenging, wonderful stuff.
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Joyce's Voices, Hugh Kenner.
Kenner is an amazing writer. This is as exciting as reading Joyce himself.
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Joyce's Voices, Hugh Kenner.
Kenner is an amazing writer. This is as exciting as reading Joyce himself.
June 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Joyce's Voices, Hugh Kenner.
Kenner is an amazing writer. This is as exciting as reading Joyce himself.
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Four - Joyce's Voices, Hugh Kenner.
Kenner is an amazing writer. This is as exciting as reading Joyce himself.
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Three Novels, Samuel Beckett.
The very definition of bleak. Yet, funny too.
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Three Novels, Samuel Beckett.
The very definition of bleak. Yet, funny too.
June 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Three Novels, Samuel Beckett.
The very definition of bleak. Yet, funny too.
Five-Hundred and Ninety-Six - Three Novels, Samuel Beckett.
The very definition of bleak. Yet, funny too.