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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 6 months ago

a fleeting glimpse of God in the math

[...] If time was infinite, then three seconds and three years represented the same infinitely small fraction of it. And so, if inflicting three years of fear and suffering was wrong, as everyone would agree, then inflicting three seconds of it was no less wrong. He caught a fleeting glimpse of God…

—p.143 Purity The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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7 years, 6 months ago

psychologists were unnecessary in the Republic

In theory, psychologists were unnecessary in the Republic of Bad Taste, because neurosis was a bourgeois malady, a morbid expression of contradictions that by definition could not exist in a perfect worker's state.

—p.108 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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7 years, 6 months ago

Eastern perceptions of West Germany

The Nazis had persecuted the Communists and nearly destroyed the Soviet Union, which had then been fully justified in exacting reparations, and America had diverted scarce resources from its own oppressed working class and sent them to West Germany to create an illusion of prosperity, luring weak a…

—p.103 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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7 years, 6 months ago

historical inevitability of the socialist workers' state

[...] Being an exceptionally bright and receptive little boy, you also already believed in the historical inevitability of the socialist workers' state. [...]

—p.103 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen
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7 years, 6 months ago

love vs lust topic/heartbreak

[...] Andreas was overwhelmed by the contrast between love and lust. Love turned out to be soul-crippling, stomach-turning, weirdly clasutrophobic; a sense of endlessness bottled up inside him, endless weight, endless potential, with only the small outlet of a shivering pale girl in a bad rain jack…

—p.100 The Republic of Bad Taste (75) by Jonathan Franzen