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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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Manichaeism

This is a very peculiar form of heresy. It's a form of Manichaeanism. And I call myself a Manichaean, a rather baffled Manichaean

—p.60 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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two pages of Chekhov create for you a whole world

Very much so. My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives. My early stories represent already an attempt to think about my central question. I think The Portage of San Cristobel of AH is mo…

—p.46 The Art of Criticism No. 2 (42) by George Steiner
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snow clouds between us and the sun inspo/setting

We had to cross the river naked, holding our clothes over our head to keep them dry, and then build a warming fire on the other side of the river. It was madness and euphoria.

It was so beautiful. The salmon sky, snow clouds between us and the sun, cast a pearly reddish-goldish light on the whol…

—p.34 Two Deer (18) by Rick Bass
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flat out told me she didn’t love me anymore topic/love

I remember the year Martha said she didn’t love me any more. The baby was seven. The baby is a genius, we think. We knew it even then. She learned to read by the time she was three, and could also tell the difference between a buck track and a doe track. She’s an utter joy to be around. She, as muc…

—p.32 Two Deer (18) by Rick Bass
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more tolerant of mystery

Martha loves, like so many of us, the big predators, which are generally much more intelligent than their prey: the wolves, bears and lions. She says that hunting is “the primary act of evolution that has most shaped the organic body we call intelligence.” That’s how she’s always talked, and I’ve g…

—p.30 Two Deer (18) by Rick Bass