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Safkhet t1_j1vcxap wrote
Reply to comment by Vakareja in Reading Resolutions: 2022 by AutoModerator
Ha, I've not considered that. I have an ongoing fascination with Thomas Paine, so the fall of Bastille/French Revolution seems like a natural progression, thank you.
Safkhet t1_j1v7uru wrote
Reply to comment by Vakareja in Reading Resolutions: 2022 by AutoModerator
It's a flexible one too. I've picked a bunch of historical facts, ranging from famous births/deaths, book publications, political and scientific events that give me a good range to accommodate my fluctuating interests. So far, I've got months until July more or less covered.
Safkhet t1_j1uuqs9 wrote
Reply to Reading Resolutions: 2022 by AutoModerator
I have an ongoing reading challenge with a friend. To add to this, I'm also planning on reading at least one book a month on a topic of a historical event that happened during that month. For example, in January I plan to read about the Palomares incident that occurred on 17 January 1966. As with 2022, I've picked two books as an absolute must, these are Halldór Laxness' Independent People and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Safkhet t1_j1jriby wrote
Reply to comment by CrawlTowardsBabylon in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
> You should manage corporate social media accounts. You have the ideological spine for it.
In a game of random literary quotes, you have somehow determined my ideological make up. What an odd logic you have.
Safkhet t1_j1iq8l7 wrote
Reply to comment by RobleViejo in This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
It's called The Man in the Maze.
Safkhet t1_j1ikjdo wrote
Reply to This is an excerpt from Cixin Liu's book "The Dark Forest", describing what happens to people when they lose all hope in Humanity by RobleViejo
I take your Cixin Liu and give you Robert Silverberg:
>"No," Rawlins persisted. He shifted about uneasily on the chair. "Now I'm going to say something that will really hurt you, Dick. I'm sorry, but I have to. What you're telling me is the kind of stuff I heard in college. Sophomore cynicism. The world is despicable, you say. Evil, evil, evil. You've seen the true nature of mankind, and you don't want to have anything to do with mankind ever again. Everybody talks that way at eighteen. But it's a phase that passes. We get over the confusions of being eighteen, and we see that the world is a pretty decent place, that people try to do their best, that we're imperfect but not loathsome—"
>"An eighteen-year-old has no right to those opinions. I do. I come by my hatreds the hard way."
>"But why cling to them? You seem to be glorying in your own misery. Break loose! Shake it off! Come back to Earth with us and forget the past. Or at least forgive."
Safkhet t1_j2a69ln wrote
Reply to Aphrodite beats her son Eros with a slipper. 360 BC from Taranto by swell_swell_swell
To paraphrase Thomas Moore...
> She said, “My infant, if so much
> Thou feel the little slipper’s touch,
> How must the heart, ah, Eros! be,
> The hapless heart that’s stung by thee!”