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1. cool detail about Byron writing to Moore in support of Luddites 2. Shelley's Frankenstein as MODERN PROMETHEUS, the Luddite novel, Frankenstein's Monster as a "major literary Badass", and also an interesting point about the meme being strengthened when translated it to film https://t.co/wZA9Haue6J

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I've read the fig tree passage from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar multiple times, but not the book itself, so today I am finding out for the first time that a page after Esther describes her despair, she sits down to eat, and realizes that, oh, uh... turns out she was hungry https://t.co/6DaPqZgumN

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Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 1241), credited with consolidating the Prose Edda, had such a colorful life. Born to a wealthy clan, raised away from home, arranged marriage, 2 kids, had 5 more kids with 3 other women, was a poet, lawyer, king's spokesman, lawspeaker, chieftain... https://t.co/JdWdn0xuDX

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this is kind of cheesy to say, but it's true: writing a book suddenly made nietzsche much more accessible to me. similar-ish: I couldn't get into plato's republic until I served in the military, then suddenly it was extremely compelling

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Alan Watts – The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966) https://t.co/EcnSNJIoX9

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@danielcjonas have you read Emerson's essay On History? you'd enjoy it I think

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Dan and Chip Heath's Made To Stick is one of my favorite books of all time, so I'm very excited to read their latest book, The Power Of Moments. Enjoying it so far, as expected https://t.co/IQPeZa2bQN

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Dan and Chip Heath's Made To Stick is one of my favorite books of all time, so I'm very excited to read their latest book, The Power Of Moments. Enjoying it so far, as expected https://t.co/IQPeZa2bQN

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probably The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders. Or maybe Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas. Or Keay Davidson’s biography of Carl Sagan https://t.co/eXZ8GWxvsV

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if you like my tweets, I've written two ebooks that you might like too the 1st is called Friendly Ambitious Nerd (@FANswitchboard), published in 2020. Best description I've heard of it is "It's like Marcus Aurelius's Meditations but for Twitter addicts"