Myrti 📚
@myrti.bsky.social
Slow reader, nature lover, green supporter, science admirer, social democrat.
#Vodolazkin23 #AHistoryOfTheIsland
The effect of technological advancements?:
"Maybe, contrary to expectations, it will also turn out that technological advancements will help to soften angry hearts and brighten muddled minds."
Me: Taking social media as an example, the opposite seems to happen. 🤦♂️
The effect of technological advancements?:
"Maybe, contrary to expectations, it will also turn out that technological advancements will help to soften angry hearts and brighten muddled minds."
Me: Taking social media as an example, the opposite seems to happen. 🤦♂️
December 12, 2023 at 7:50 AM
#Vodolazkin23 #AHistoryOfTheIsland
The effect of technological advancements?:
"Maybe, contrary to expectations, it will also turn out that technological advancements will help to soften angry hearts and brighten muddled minds."
Me: Taking social media as an example, the opposite seems to happen. 🤦♂️
The effect of technological advancements?:
"Maybe, contrary to expectations, it will also turn out that technological advancements will help to soften angry hearts and brighten muddled minds."
Me: Taking social media as an example, the opposite seems to happen. 🤦♂️
#Vodolazkin23 #AHistoryOfTheIsland
Progress and bombs:
"It is interesting how Brother Ilary writes about progress. The word had just come into fashion at the time and the chronicler avoids it when possible. He obviously does not like the word: it appeared on the Island with the first bombs."
Progress and bombs:
"It is interesting how Brother Ilary writes about progress. The word had just come into fashion at the time and the chronicler avoids it when possible. He obviously does not like the word: it appeared on the Island with the first bombs."
December 12, 2023 at 7:45 AM
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Progress and bombs:
"It is interesting how Brother Ilary writes about progress. The word had just come into fashion at the time and the chronicler avoids it when possible. He obviously does not like the word: it appeared on the Island with the first bombs."
Progress and bombs:
"It is interesting how Brother Ilary writes about progress. The word had just come into fashion at the time and the chronicler avoids it when possible. He obviously does not like the word: it appeared on the Island with the first bombs."
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Better life or new life:
"What was lamentable: it was required in progressive circles to call the evildoers not evildoers but fighters for a better life. Nobody, including the fighters previously mentioned, knew either what that life consisted of ...
2/
Better life or new life:
"What was lamentable: it was required in progressive circles to call the evildoers not evildoers but fighters for a better life. Nobody, including the fighters previously mentioned, knew either what that life consisted of ...
2/
December 12, 2023 at 7:43 AM
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Better life or new life:
"What was lamentable: it was required in progressive circles to call the evildoers not evildoers but fighters for a better life. Nobody, including the fighters previously mentioned, knew either what that life consisted of ...
2/
Better life or new life:
"What was lamentable: it was required in progressive circles to call the evildoers not evildoers but fighters for a better life. Nobody, including the fighters previously mentioned, knew either what that life consisted of ...
2/
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Feeling & thought:
"The attacks that began to overwhelm the Island in recent times lacked feeling: thought prevailed, vile and unfeeling thought. Feeling and thought necessarily reside in harmony, in order that they may check one another. ...
2/
Feeling & thought:
"The attacks that began to overwhelm the Island in recent times lacked feeling: thought prevailed, vile and unfeeling thought. Feeling and thought necessarily reside in harmony, in order that they may check one another. ...
2/
December 12, 2023 at 7:40 AM
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Feeling & thought:
"The attacks that began to overwhelm the Island in recent times lacked feeling: thought prevailed, vile and unfeeling thought. Feeling and thought necessarily reside in harmony, in order that they may check one another. ...
2/
Feeling & thought:
"The attacks that began to overwhelm the Island in recent times lacked feeling: thought prevailed, vile and unfeeling thought. Feeling and thought necessarily reside in harmony, in order that they may check one another. ...
2/
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Burning history:
"Brother Galaktion tossed sheet after sheet into the stove. They first curled, losing strength from the flame and resisting it. They grew unbearably bright, as if they were emitting all the light amassed in them, ...
2/
Burning history:
"Brother Galaktion tossed sheet after sheet into the stove. They first curled, losing strength from the flame and resisting it. They grew unbearably bright, as if they were emitting all the light amassed in them, ...
2/
December 12, 2023 at 7:37 AM
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Burning history:
"Brother Galaktion tossed sheet after sheet into the stove. They first curled, losing strength from the flame and resisting it. They grew unbearably bright, as if they were emitting all the light amassed in them, ...
2/
Burning history:
"Brother Galaktion tossed sheet after sheet into the stove. They first curled, losing strength from the flame and resisting it. They grew unbearably bright, as if they were emitting all the light amassed in them, ...
2/
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Human behaviour:
"When the cat uttered harmony and love at the mention of Parfeny and Ksenia, the most mistrustful were satisfied on the strength of the cat’s words."
Human behaviour:
"When the cat uttered harmony and love at the mention of Parfeny and Ksenia, the most mistrustful were satisfied on the strength of the cat’s words."
December 12, 2023 at 7:35 AM
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Human behaviour:
"When the cat uttered harmony and love at the mention of Parfeny and Ksenia, the most mistrustful were satisfied on the strength of the cat’s words."
Human behaviour:
"When the cat uttered harmony and love at the mention of Parfeny and Ksenia, the most mistrustful were satisfied on the strength of the cat’s words."
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Study history in order to understand the present:
"History, Agafon taught, tells much more about the present than the past."
Study history in order to understand the present:
"History, Agafon taught, tells much more about the present than the past."
December 4, 2023 at 11:17 AM
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Study history in order to understand the present:
"History, Agafon taught, tells much more about the present than the past."
Study history in order to understand the present:
"History, Agafon taught, tells much more about the present than the past."
#Vodolazkin23 #AHistoryOfTheIsland
The rhythm of biological life is also followed by other things:
"Some things cease their existence not because they are bad; their time has simply expired. And they begin their existence not because they are good; their time, to the contrary, has arrived."
The rhythm of biological life is also followed by other things:
"Some things cease their existence not because they are bad; their time has simply expired. And they begin their existence not because they are good; their time, to the contrary, has arrived."
December 4, 2023 at 11:15 AM
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The rhythm of biological life is also followed by other things:
"Some things cease their existence not because they are bad; their time has simply expired. And they begin their existence not because they are good; their time, to the contrary, has arrived."
The rhythm of biological life is also followed by other things:
"Some things cease their existence not because they are bad; their time has simply expired. And they begin their existence not because they are good; their time, to the contrary, has arrived."
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Do people do this? :
"What made these people throw away their prosperity, exchange a calm life for the gravest of ordeals and, finally, arrive at the complete destruction of that life?
The idea of justice?"
Do people do this? :
"What made these people throw away their prosperity, exchange a calm life for the gravest of ordeals and, finally, arrive at the complete destruction of that life?
The idea of justice?"
December 4, 2023 at 11:11 AM
#Vodolazkin23 #AHistoryOfTheIsland
Do people do this? :
"What made these people throw away their prosperity, exchange a calm life for the gravest of ordeals and, finally, arrive at the complete destruction of that life?
The idea of justice?"
Do people do this? :
"What made these people throw away their prosperity, exchange a calm life for the gravest of ordeals and, finally, arrive at the complete destruction of that life?
The idea of justice?"
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You get out what you put in:
"long life has convinced me that people themselves create their own circumstances."
You get out what you put in:
"long life has convinced me that people themselves create their own circumstances."
December 3, 2023 at 10:23 AM
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You get out what you put in:
"long life has convinced me that people themselves create their own circumstances."
You get out what you put in:
"long life has convinced me that people themselves create their own circumstances."
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It cuts both ways:
"When the pagan gods were burned, sorcerers said the day would come when words in books would also burn."
It cuts both ways:
"When the pagan gods were burned, sorcerers said the day would come when words in books would also burn."
December 3, 2023 at 10:21 AM
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It cuts both ways:
"When the pagan gods were burned, sorcerers said the day would come when words in books would also burn."
It cuts both ways:
"When the pagan gods were burned, sorcerers said the day would come when words in books would also burn."
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This time it will be different 🤦♂️:
"It was thought (as now, too) that knowledge of the past is essential for those holding power. That notion seems fair to me. True, it is also fair to say that knowledge of history has yet to prevent anyone from making mistakes."
This time it will be different 🤦♂️:
"It was thought (as now, too) that knowledge of the past is essential for those holding power. That notion seems fair to me. True, it is also fair to say that knowledge of history has yet to prevent anyone from making mistakes."
December 3, 2023 at 9:24 AM
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This time it will be different 🤦♂️:
"It was thought (as now, too) that knowledge of the past is essential for those holding power. That notion seems fair to me. True, it is also fair to say that knowledge of history has yet to prevent anyone from making mistakes."
This time it will be different 🤦♂️:
"It was thought (as now, too) that knowledge of the past is essential for those holding power. That notion seems fair to me. True, it is also fair to say that knowledge of history has yet to prevent anyone from making mistakes."
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Tempus fugit:
"Time is slow during childhood, it lingers, but later it takes a running start and then, toward the end of life, it flies."
Tempus fugit:
"Time is slow during childhood, it lingers, but later it takes a running start and then, toward the end of life, it flies."
December 3, 2023 at 9:21 AM
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Tempus fugit:
"Time is slow during childhood, it lingers, but later it takes a running start and then, toward the end of life, it flies."
Tempus fugit:
"Time is slow during childhood, it lingers, but later it takes a running start and then, toward the end of life, it flies."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
For The Judge:
Straight = Winding: "The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? "
True = False: "Men’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not."
For The Judge:
Straight = Winding: "The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? "
True = False: "Men’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not."
November 26, 2023 at 7:48 AM
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For The Judge:
Straight = Winding: "The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? "
True = False: "Men’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not."
For The Judge:
Straight = Winding: "The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? "
True = False: "Men’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Coagulated rabble:
"A dimly seething rabble had coagulated within. As if the raw board structure erected for their containment occupied some ultimate sink into which they had gravitated from off the surrounding flatlands."
2/
Coagulated rabble:
"A dimly seething rabble had coagulated within. As if the raw board structure erected for their containment occupied some ultimate sink into which they had gravitated from off the surrounding flatlands."
2/
November 26, 2023 at 7:43 AM
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Coagulated rabble:
"A dimly seething rabble had coagulated within. As if the raw board structure erected for their containment occupied some ultimate sink into which they had gravitated from off the surrounding flatlands."
2/
Coagulated rabble:
"A dimly seething rabble had coagulated within. As if the raw board structure erected for their containment occupied some ultimate sink into which they had gravitated from off the surrounding flatlands."
2/
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Savage, savage pursuit:
"They eked a desperate living from that land and they knew that nothing excepting some savage pursuit could drive men to such plight . .
2/
Savage, savage pursuit:
"They eked a desperate living from that land and they knew that nothing excepting some savage pursuit could drive men to such plight . .
2/
November 24, 2023 at 6:32 PM
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Savage, savage pursuit:
"They eked a desperate living from that land and they knew that nothing excepting some savage pursuit could drive men to such plight . .
2/
Savage, savage pursuit:
"They eked a desperate living from that land and they knew that nothing excepting some savage pursuit could drive men to such plight . .
2/
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Equality:
"In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence."
Equality:
"In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence."
November 21, 2023 at 5:57 PM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Equality:
"In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence."
Equality:
"In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
The world:
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream,
2/
The world:
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream,
2/
November 21, 2023 at 5:54 PM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
The world:
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream,
2/
The world:
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream,
2/
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
The Americans aka The Glanton Gang:
Apache perspective: "He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk."
Mexican perspective: "Couts looked them over. Haggard and haunted and blacked by the sun.
2/
The Americans aka The Glanton Gang:
Apache perspective: "He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk."
Mexican perspective: "Couts looked them over. Haggard and haunted and blacked by the sun.
2/
November 21, 2023 at 4:03 AM
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The Americans aka The Glanton Gang:
Apache perspective: "He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk."
Mexican perspective: "Couts looked them over. Haggard and haunted and blacked by the sun.
2/
The Americans aka The Glanton Gang:
Apache perspective: "He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk."
Mexican perspective: "Couts looked them over. Haggard and haunted and blacked by the sun.
2/
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Unchosen hostels:
"the boy lowered the lamp . . . and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them in profound and absolute darkness.
No one moved. In that cold stable the shutting of the door may have evoked in some hearts other hostels and not of their choosing."
Unchosen hostels:
"the boy lowered the lamp . . . and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them in profound and absolute darkness.
No one moved. In that cold stable the shutting of the door may have evoked in some hearts other hostels and not of their choosing."
November 20, 2023 at 3:42 AM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Unchosen hostels:
"the boy lowered the lamp . . . and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them in profound and absolute darkness.
No one moved. In that cold stable the shutting of the door may have evoked in some hearts other hostels and not of their choosing."
Unchosen hostels:
"the boy lowered the lamp . . . and pulled the door shut behind, leaving them in profound and absolute darkness.
No one moved. In that cold stable the shutting of the door may have evoked in some hearts other hostels and not of their choosing."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Getting the feeling Judge Holden is the devil.
Early warning by Rev. Green in Nacogdoches: "This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands."
Him killing the two children.
2/
Getting the feeling Judge Holden is the devil.
Early warning by Rev. Green in Nacogdoches: "This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands."
Him killing the two children.
2/
November 15, 2023 at 8:07 PM
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Getting the feeling Judge Holden is the devil.
Early warning by Rev. Green in Nacogdoches: "This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands."
Him killing the two children.
2/
Getting the feeling Judge Holden is the devil.
Early warning by Rev. Green in Nacogdoches: "This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands."
Him killing the two children.
2/
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Ceasefire:
"Someone rose to stoke the fire and the moon ascended and grew small over the ruined dwellings and the little stream braided over the sands in the valley floor shone like woven metal and save for the sound it made there was no sound other."
Ceasefire:
"Someone rose to stoke the fire and the moon ascended and grew small over the ruined dwellings and the little stream braided over the sands in the valley floor shone like woven metal and save for the sound it made there was no sound other."
November 15, 2023 at 4:31 AM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Ceasefire:
"Someone rose to stoke the fire and the moon ascended and grew small over the ruined dwellings and the little stream braided over the sands in the valley floor shone like woven metal and save for the sound it made there was no sound other."
Ceasefire:
"Someone rose to stoke the fire and the moon ascended and grew small over the ruined dwellings and the little stream braided over the sands in the valley floor shone like woven metal and save for the sound it made there was no sound other."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Satisfied with the world:
"he sat with his hands cupped in his lap and he seemed much satisfied with the world, as if his counsel had been sought at its creation."
Satisfied with the world:
"he sat with his hands cupped in his lap and he seemed much satisfied with the world, as if his counsel had been sought at its creation."
November 15, 2023 at 4:30 AM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
Satisfied with the world:
"he sat with his hands cupped in his lap and he seemed much satisfied with the world, as if his counsel had been sought at its creation."
Satisfied with the world:
"he sat with his hands cupped in his lap and he seemed much satisfied with the world, as if his counsel had been sought at its creation."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man!" (MobyDick):
"For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies."
“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man!" (MobyDick):
"For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies."
November 12, 2023 at 5:16 AM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man!" (MobyDick):
"For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies."
“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man!" (MobyDick):
"For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies."
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
The hymns of their childhood:
"The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves."
The hymns of their childhood:
"The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves."
November 12, 2023 at 5:12 AM
#McCarthy23 #BloodMeridian
The hymns of their childhood:
"The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves."
The hymns of their childhood:
"The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves."