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Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustnt...

Rated Nov 14 • 2 reviews • history, literature, journalism • independent.co.uk

Fisk on the Great War and the general degeneration of our ability to read and understand the words authored by those who experienced this conflict first-hand.
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Sociopathy on the Right: Ayn Rand and the Triumph of...

Rated Sep 15 • 26 reviews • literature, politics, society • dirk-johnson.com

What is the difference between Ayn Rand style capitalism and satanism?
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Popol Vuh (Mayan) The Council Book

Rated Feb 15 2009 • 1 review • literature, mythology, native american • tphta.ws

"Now it still ripples, now it still murmurs, it still sighs, still hums, and it is empty under the sky.

Here follow the first words, the first eloquence:

There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, forest. Only the sky alone is there; the face of the earth is not clear. Only the sea alone is pooled under all the sky; there is nothing whatever gathered together. It is at rest; not a single thing stirs. It is held back, kept at rest under the sky.

Whatever there is that might be is simply not there: only the pooled water, only the calm sea, only it alone is pooled.

Whatever might be is simply not there: only murmurs, ripples, in the dark, in the night. Only the Maker, Modeler alone, Sovereign Plumed Serpent, the Bearers, Begetters are in the water, a glittering light. They are there, they are enclosed in quetzal feathers, in blue-green.

Thus the name, Plumed Serpent. They are great knowers, great thinkers in their very being.

And of course there is the sky, and there is also the Heart of Sky. This is the name of the god, as it is spoken."
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Balkan Travellers - Bosnia's Dark Icons: The Bridge on...

Rated Feb 09 2009 • 1 review • history, literature, europe • balkantravellers.com

"The locals avoid talking both about the events from the 1990s and about their life following those events. Either from pangs of guilt or as an expression of some kind of delayed regret, they rebuilt the mosque and even though there is nobody to go to it, five times a day the voice of an imam, brought from another country, summons to prayer."
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Yiddish Novel With Tolstoyan Sweep - WSJ.com

Rated Feb 07 2009 • 1 review • history, literature • wsj.com

"I.J. Singer's "The Brothers Ashkenazi" may be the best Russian novel ever written in Yiddish. The book has the grand sweep of Tolstoy, with a vast and wide-ranging cast of characters, a strong feeling for the movement of history, and playing throughout, the drama of men and women trapped in the machinery of forces much greater than themselves."
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Mr. Dickens and Dr. Rae

Rated Jan 17 2009 • 1 review • literature, arctic, exploration • ric.edu

"From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource-- cannibalism-- as a means of prolonging existence . . . . . "

These words come from a report on the doomed fate of the Franklin Expedition (1845-1859), a mission to find the northwest passage to the Pacific, quoted in an article by Charles Dickens who dismisses the notion as ...the chatter of a gross handful of uncivilised people, with domesticity of blood and blubber... by which he means the Inuit who were interviewed by subsequent rescue missions. Modern scientific inquiries confirm that the original reports were correct.
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Aldous Huxley on dogs and Napoleon

Rated Dec 15 2008 • 1 review • literature, society • huxley.net

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

-Aldous Huxley
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Nick Gaetano; Quent Cordair Fine Art

Rated Oct 31 2008 • 2 reviews • literature, philosophy, arts • cordair.com

"What they have to discover, what all the efforts of capitalism's enemies are frantically aimed at hiding, is the fact that capitalism is not merely the 'practical,' but the only moral system in history."

-Ayn Rand
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Translator, poet champions medieval Persian verse

Rated Oct 22 2008 • 1 review • literature, poetry • stanford.edu

"I know of no greater love poem, in any language," Davis said. "Romeo and Juliet? They are as nothing."

Vis & Ramin has the time-honored building blocks of romance: lovers' separation, parental opposition and enduring love. It even has some of the same elements of its later Western counterparts, such as the old nurse who becomes Vis' confidante. Davis also makes a convincing case for Vis and Ramin being the source for Tristan and Isolde, but there are important differences. The Persian lovers' adultery and unfaithfulness to each other is not punished; in fact, the lovers are rewarded for their poor behavior.

Vis and Ramin "don't behave well. Real people don't behave well," he said at the May dinner. "
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Northvegr - Tacitus Germania

Rated Oct 12 2008 • 1 review • history, literature, classics • northvegr.org

"For the rest, from the grandeur and majesty of beings celestial, they judge it altogether unsuitable to hold the Gods enclosed within walls, or to represent them under any human likeness. They consecrate whole woods and groves, and by the names of the Gods they call these recesses; divinities these, which only in contemplation and mental reverence they behold."
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