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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Author:
Lawrence WeschlerRecommended by:
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September 2022
All The Names They Used For God
Author:
Anjali SachdevaRecommended by:
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November 2020
"Learn to smile in the daytime and write your heresies by candlelight, or you'll live to regret it."
Love in the Time of Cholera
Author:
Gabriel Garcia MarquezBuy:
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October 2020
"Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."
"He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past."
Lincoln in the Bardo
Author:
George SaundersRecommended by:
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September 2020
Invisible Cities
Author:
Italo CalvinoRecommended by:
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June 2020
"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
Neuromancer
Author:
William GibsonRecommended by:
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May 2020
"There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related. The Panther Moderns differ from other terrorists precisely in their degree of self-consciousness, in their awareness of the extent to which media divorce the act of terrorism from the original sociopolitical intent..."
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Author:
Ken LiuBuy:
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March 2020
"We travel millions of miles to seek out fresh vistas without even once having glimpsed inside our skulls, a landscape surely as alien and as wondrous as anything the universe has to offer."
The God of Small Things
Author:
Arundhati RoyRecommended by:
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April 2019
