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Finished #Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk #Tokarczuk25
…he'd had a massive stroke...She sat up next to him all night, whispering into his ear, believing he heard and understood her. She led him down the dusty road among…the warehouses, the ramps, the dirty garages, down the side of the highway, all night.
#OlgaTokarczuk #Tokarczuk25
…he'd had a massive stroke...She sat up next to him all night, whispering into his ear, believing he heard and understood her. She led him down the dusty road among…the warehouses, the ramps, the dirty garages, down the side of the highway, all night.
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Finished #Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk #Tokarczuk25
…he'd had a massive stroke...She sat up next to him all night, whispering into his ear, believing he heard and understood her. She led him down the dusty road among…the warehouses, the ramps, the dirty garages, down the side of the highway, all night.
#OlgaTokarczuk #Tokarczuk25
…he'd had a massive stroke...She sat up next to him all night, whispering into his ear, believing he heard and understood her. She led him down the dusty road among…the warehouses, the ramps, the dirty garages, down the side of the highway, all night.
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
I couldn't have been more disgusted if I had travelled all this way for the sole purpose of talking with Mr. Kurtz…I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing… ‘Now I will never hear him.' The man presented himself as a voice.
#JosephConrad
I couldn't have been more disgusted if I had travelled all this way for the sole purpose of talking with Mr. Kurtz…I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing… ‘Now I will never hear him.' The man presented himself as a voice.
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
I couldn't have been more disgusted if I had travelled all this way for the sole purpose of talking with Mr. Kurtz…I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing… ‘Now I will never hear him.' The man presented himself as a voice.
#JosephConrad
I couldn't have been more disgusted if I had travelled all this way for the sole purpose of talking with Mr. Kurtz…I had never imagined him as doing, you know, but as discoursing… ‘Now I will never hear him.' The man presented himself as a voice.
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
#ThePlaceofShells
#MaiIshizawa
He must've noticed me, and the monotonous squeak of his suitcase wheels drew closer. As the distance between us gradually lessened, I could tell that both the far-off time and my frozen memory had begun to thaw, creaking like those wheels.
#MaiIshizawa
He must've noticed me, and the monotonous squeak of his suitcase wheels drew closer. As the distance between us gradually lessened, I could tell that both the far-off time and my frozen memory had begun to thaw, creaking like those wheels.
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#ThePlaceofShells
#MaiIshizawa
He must've noticed me, and the monotonous squeak of his suitcase wheels drew closer. As the distance between us gradually lessened, I could tell that both the far-off time and my frozen memory had begun to thaw, creaking like those wheels.
#MaiIshizawa
He must've noticed me, and the monotonous squeak of his suitcase wheels drew closer. As the distance between us gradually lessened, I could tell that both the far-off time and my frozen memory had begun to thaw, creaking like those wheels.
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
Brokenness.Poverty broken....Broken homes…Broken ties.Broken culture. Broken land.Broken people.Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken.A broken state of affairs.Broken band-aids. Broken children. Broken thoughts. Links to all times broken...
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
#AlexisWright
Brokenness.Poverty broken....Broken homes…Broken ties.Broken culture. Broken land.Broken people.Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken.A broken state of affairs.Broken band-aids. Broken children. Broken thoughts. Links to all times broken...
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#Praiseworthy
#AlexisWright
Brokenness.Poverty broken....Broken homes…Broken ties.Broken culture. Broken land.Broken people.Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken.A broken state of affairs.Broken band-aids. Broken children. Broken thoughts. Links to all times broken...
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
#AlexisWright
Brokenness.Poverty broken....Broken homes…Broken ties.Broken culture. Broken land.Broken people.Broken love? Broken joy? Race broken.A broken state of affairs.Broken band-aids. Broken children. Broken thoughts. Links to all times broken...
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
Finished #Seascraper
#BenjaminWood
‘I want to go as far as we can get into that fog,Tom.Can we do that?'
'Yeah,but if it thickens up too much, the horse is going to fret.'
'Then how about we find the sea so I can get a proper look at it…needn't hang around too long…head up to the edge and back.'
#BenjaminWood
‘I want to go as far as we can get into that fog,Tom.Can we do that?'
'Yeah,but if it thickens up too much, the horse is going to fret.'
'Then how about we find the sea so I can get a proper look at it…needn't hang around too long…head up to the edge and back.'
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Finished #Seascraper
#BenjaminWood
‘I want to go as far as we can get into that fog,Tom.Can we do that?'
'Yeah,but if it thickens up too much, the horse is going to fret.'
'Then how about we find the sea so I can get a proper look at it…needn't hang around too long…head up to the edge and back.'
#BenjaminWood
‘I want to go as far as we can get into that fog,Tom.Can we do that?'
'Yeah,but if it thickens up too much, the horse is going to fret.'
'Then how about we find the sea so I can get a proper look at it…needn't hang around too long…head up to the edge and back.'
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
I thought, 'By Jove! it's all over.
We are too late; he has vanished…’ and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion…I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…
#JosephConrad
I thought, 'By Jove! it's all over.
We are too late; he has vanished…’ and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion…I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
I thought, 'By Jove! it's all over.
We are too late; he has vanished…’ and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion…I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…
#JosephConrad
I thought, 'By Jove! it's all over.
We are too late; he has vanished…’ and my sorrow had a startling extravagance of emotion…I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
In just five months he was able to recite the adventures of Ishmael in passages he knew by heart, and to speak in the voice of Ahab…for this was the manner of expression most organic to Eryk…synchronicity, evidence of the world making sense.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
In just five months he was able to recite the adventures of Ishmael in passages he knew by heart, and to speak in the voice of Ahab…for this was the manner of expression most organic to Eryk…synchronicity, evidence of the world making sense.
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
In just five months he was able to recite the adventures of Ishmael in passages he knew by heart, and to speak in the voice of Ahab…for this was the manner of expression most organic to Eryk…synchronicity, evidence of the world making sense.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
In just five months he was able to recite the adventures of Ishmael in passages he knew by heart, and to speak in the voice of Ahab…for this was the manner of expression most organic to Eryk…synchronicity, evidence of the world making sense.
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
The wilderness…had taken him, loved him…got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favorite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it.
#JosephConrad
The wilderness…had taken him, loved him…got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favorite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
The wilderness…had taken him, loved him…got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favorite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it.
#JosephConrad
The wilderness…had taken him, loved him…got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation. He was its spoiled and pampered favorite. Ivory? I should think so. Heaps of it, stacks of it.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#TheNames
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#TheNames
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#DonDeLillo
“…the Americans choose strategy over principle every time and yet keep believing in their own innocence…Does your boss tell you that power must be blind in both eyes? You don't see us…the final humiliation. The occupiers fail to see the people they control."
#JosephConrad
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
#JosephConrad
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water…The rest of the world was nowhere…swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
“You have to go to Cuba-but the Cuba they've got now, under Fidel. When he dies, Cuba's going to be the same as everywhere. But if you go right now you'll see some incredible poverty…You really have to get on it, though-apparently Fidel is pretty ill."
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#Underworld
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
#DonDeLillo
Then she said, "Duck and cover! Duck and cover…”
…He liked to duck and cover.There was a sense of acting in unison that he found satisfying…felt the comfort of numbers…a community of lookalikes and do-alikes…In their prayer posture they could have been anyone from anywhere.
#V #ThomasPynchon
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#V #ThomasPynchon
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
an odd sort of peace…like what the black was feeling as he gave up the ghost.Usually the most you felt was annoyance;the kind of annoyance you have for an insect…You have to obliterate its life…the knowledge that this is only one unit in a seemingly infinite series…
#JosephConrad
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
#JosephConrad
His name, you understand, had not been pronounced once. He was 'that man.'
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
I dreamed I was leafing through an American magazine with photographs of ponds and pools…The letters A, B, and C described precisely every component part of the plans and outlines. I eagerly began reading an article titled "How to Build an Ocean: Instructions."
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…the point I departed from…the point I'm headed to…an in-between? Am I like that lost day when you fly east…Am I subject to…quantum physics…a particle may exist in two places at once? Or to a different law…that you can doubly not exist in the same place?
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#HeartofDarkness
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
#JosephConrad
…I seemed to see Kurtz for the first time…the dugout, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home…setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness….
Finished #Neuromancer
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Finished #Neuromancer
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
#WilliamGibson
“Numb," he said. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing….
