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Marginalia, no.336
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
We had in this village more than twenty years ago an idiot-boy, whom I well remember, who, from a child, shewed a strong propensity to bees; they were his food, his amusement, his sole object. …[He] had no apprehension from their stings but would seize them nudis manibus, and…
Marginalia, no.335
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
[T]ell me again that I am not such cold poison to everybody as I am to some. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson in a letter to Frances Sitwell, Sept. 1873 I seem unable to make myself pleasant to certain of my colleagues. One of them, overfond of decorating our cubicles, recently…
Franz Kafka on the kind of books we should be reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord,…
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