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5w6 ^8
Join Date: May 2007
Type: INTJ
Location: TEXAS! the state formerly known as a country
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The Silent Don
It's about Santo Trafficante Jr.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau Truths are a useless fiction. - Nietzsche Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. - David Hume "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Type: INFJ
Location: an awesome bubble
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Mainly, I am reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, but there are a few others floating around (The Glass Bead Game by Hesse, Reading Lolita in Tehran).
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INFJ - 4w5 sx "Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility: that's the essence of America's promise." -- Barack Obama |
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Join Date: May 2007
Type: INTP
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Just finished some Schoupenhaur essay's, and 'A quest for Origin's' by Kerry Howe(a NZ history book).
Also 'Child of God' by Cormac Mc'Carthy -- really good, in a twisted psychotic kind of way. Now reading 'Less than Zero' by Bret Easton Ellis, and 'A Encyclopedia of Classical, Celtic and Nordic Mythology.
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One by one, over the months, the other bulbs burn out, and are gone. The first few of these hit Byron hard. He's still a new arrival, still hasn't accepted his immortality. But on through the burning hours he starts to learn about the transience of others: learns that loving them while they're here becomes easier, and also more intense—to love as if each design-hour will be the last. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett - The Unnamable |
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Type: ENFJ
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This is going a couple pages back, but I love Russian literature. Seems like almost every book has a depressing ending, but they are so well-written that I can't help but love them. Ever read Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy? They're both excellent. Right now I'm working on The Idiot by Dostoevsky and I'm planning on reading War and Peace by Tolstoy.
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