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I'm choosing a book for a new reading group, to follow Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I'm thinking Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time - I'd love to know other readers' thoughts on it.
Any #WomenWritersNet read it?
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An autocracy has been built on the structures and norms of the American gov’t: concentration of power in the executive branch, and the marriage of $ and politics.
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I recently came across this observation which in the winter of life’s season certainly caught my attention: “Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue on without you.”
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“..my hair was hardening into bristles, my ..skin was roughening to a hide.My toes and fingers…clotted into solid hoofs;”
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19th-century Russian writers, whose works and lives I have studied since upper school, captured the contradictions pulling Russian society apart.
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Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave. (Jorge Manrique)
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Explore why the early Christian church preferred to promote an image of a man named Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather then a politically conscious revolutionary.
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Book groups? Check out my new book guide for A MAP OF HER OWN. Strong female characters, deeply placed in Pacific NW, dual timeline. Download at dedemontgomery.com/a-map-of-her... #booksky #writingcommunity #bookgroups
Read to feel at home in the world, to know a little something of the best that has been thought, believed, and created by great minds.
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In his journal for July 10-12, 1841, 13 years before publishing Walden, Thoreau wrote: “A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand.”
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Everything is inverted in Dostoevsky’s Demons: freedom ends in despotism, care turns to hatred, clarity increases blindness.
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“A mind not agitated by hard questions cannot appreciate the significance of the best answers.” (Mortimer Adler)
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Certain gifted individuals have shown a proclivity for living alone and apart. I so share that sentiment.
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“All struggles Are essentially power struggles, …essentially power struggles…are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
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“I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives, So he will buy my service with his soul.”
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“We shall proclaim destruction..we’ll break everything..The world will weep…it will see that it’s perishing…The our man will come forth.. take the reins….the stronger will seize power”
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While reading the works of Cicero, it dawned on me that in a society envisioned by the “make America great again” crowd Cicero would probably have his tongue cut out.
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The Enlightenment(1680-1790) was the foundation-head of religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech, and press. Look at us now!
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Raymond Aron, a French contemporary and schoolmate of Jean-Paul Sartre, opined, there would always be men tempted to overthrow or undermine a free society.
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Why did Rome fall: Overextension of military commitments? Centralization of decision-making? Pursue of luxury and blatant corruption? Check out Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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