Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Quote of the day: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction…& the distinction between true and false no longer exist. —Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism https://t.co/MBqCVgSBWE

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Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Omitting collected works sets, what’re the top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves? including both books by & about the author). QT with your answer: 1. Du Fu 2. Dickens 3. Victor Hugo 4. Tolkien (I loved him so much when I was young & he wrote back! )

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Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Quote of the day: Our culture’s dysfunctional message is that healthy people accept the world as it is. —Mary Pipher, Writing to Change the World https://t.co/1tQpfL1tsQ

Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Quote of the day: One of the great mysteries of literary history is what exactly the supremely respectable Henry James meant by calling one of his characters Fanny Assingham. —David Lodge, The Art of Fiction https://t.co/Ns5InGau2b

Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Quote of the day, or, how Republicans think: Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves. —James McGill Buchanan, The Limits of Liberty (1975). Dark-Side economist trying to remake democracy into an oligarchy. https://t.co/ADeGQW3J52 https://t.co/Bdz4veavkA

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Woman of the day: Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905–1990), born Sheila Irene Pant, later known as Gul-I-Rana; economist, university professor, feminist and independence activist. She was the first First Lady of Pakistan and the first woman governor. https://t.co/s5nNSJ1JBC https://t.co/DqylbVTsGe

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Quote of the day: It was at this time [1924, after the destructive inflation of 1923 had been tamed] that, invisibly and unnoticed, the Germans divided into those who later became Nazis and those who would remain non-Nazis. —Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler, tr. O Pretzel https://t.co/mue5Fr7SeJ

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Woman of the day: Margaret Garner (d. 1858), enslaved black American who escaped to freedom with her small daughter across the frozen Ohio River, but was caught by slave-catchers. She killed her child rather than let it be enslaved. The inspiration for Toni Morrison’s Beloved. https://t.co/9EJPmyHo4V

Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Quote of the day: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction…& the distinction between true and false no longer exist. —Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism https://t.co/MBqCVgSBWE

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Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人

Omitting collected works sets, what’re the top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves? including both books by & about the author). QT with your answer: 1. Du Fu 2. Dickens 3. Victor Hugo 4. Tolkien (I loved him so much when I was young & he wrote back! )