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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
#booksky
But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness; that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was for ever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It gets better every time I read it.
Frankenstein (or, The Modern Prometheus) By Mary Shelley
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves, or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche, or the cracking reverberated along the mountains of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
Sentence of the Day: If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. Frankenstein; Mary Shelley.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley
I paused, examining and analysing all the minutia of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me—a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised, that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelly.
#booksky
Were we among the tamer scenes of nature, I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature:—nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
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Even a sceptic, who can see nothing but a travesty of bitter truth in anything holy or emotional, would have been melted to the heart had he seen that little group of loving and devoted friends kneeling round that stricken and sorrowing lady; or heard the tender passion of her husband's voice, as in tones so broken with emotion that often he had to pause, he read the simple and beautiful service from the Burial of the Dead.
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
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Sentence of the Day: Oh, that I could give any idea of the scene; of that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and animation, with the red scar on her forehead, of which she was conscious, and which we saw with grinding of our teeth-remembering whence and how it came; her loving kindness against our grim hate; her tender faith against all our fears and doubting; and we, knowing that so far as symbols went, she with all her goodness and purity and faith, was outcast from God. Dracula; Bram Stoker. #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
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October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving from Barrie, ON.
Skyline at night over Barrie, Ontario. Sun has just barely set. A thin bank of clouds. Lights just coming on.
October 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Sentence of the Day:

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM