Carlos Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami - When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on “What would happen to the world if there was no friction?” Answer: “Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.” That was my [1/2]

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The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Statistics, it is true, do not necessarily point to real historical processes; yet it is noteworthy that to a statistician Nazi persecution and extermination could look like a senseless acceleration of a process which would [1/2]

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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another part of me into that world. Sometimes I feel like the caretaker of a museum – a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m [1/2]

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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

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Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami - “Just think about what comes before words. You owe that to the dead. As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself. Is that [1/2]

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The War on the West by Douglas Murray - whatsoever. A Massachusetts school was one of those to ban Homer, deeming The Odyssey as just one part of a canon of texts by dead white men that were problematic.12 In such judgments, you see the whole canon of English literature [1/2]

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1q84 by Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin - Either I’m funny or the world’s funny, I don’t know which. The bottle and lid don’t fit. It could be the bottle’s fault or the lid’s fault. In either case, there’s no denying that the fit is bad.

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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - “‘Why?’!” she screamed. “Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don’t know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a [1/2]

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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - Tiny diagrammatic shapes seemed to float in the darkness when I closed my eyes, and my ears sensed the lingering reverberation of Reiko’s guitar, but neither of these lasted for long.

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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje - to crawl in against his body, the arm she wants, her tongue instead of a swab, her tooth instead of a needle, her mouth instead of the mask with the codeine drops to make him sleep, to make his immortal ticking brain slow into [1/2]