stephenbdunne
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Mostly just reading.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined December 2010
A few evenings later they were walking towards a cinema in the city centre when a man stopped and laughed at Jack, and Jack laughed back, and the man said: "It won't be long now, fella."
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There is a way of being lost without having gone anywhere.
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Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.
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Once, when I was nineteen, I gave my father a Father's Day card meant for uncles and neighbors. 'You've Been Like a Father to Me,' it read.
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Up the Workers ⸮.
This is my story. The story of a class fighter. I've been at the centre of British politics for the great political battles of our time. Now, in my own words, I'm revealing all. My autobiography, Always Red, available to order.
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You will discover (and will not approve) that I do not hold with certain of my colleagues who will tell us that literature, in its most valuable and intriguing moments, is "fundamentally non-referential."
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RT @TheGreatB00ks: ➡️How should we read Plato?. 🌞Plato writes in dialogues and the drama is part of his pedagogy. It is not as if there is….
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Mammy. Cake. Girls. Boring shit. Old.
As a first semester freshman, I took a course where we read the entirety of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The class had a dozen students, and some weeks we read around 500 pages. There are still students who want college experiences like that but it’s fewer every year.
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When it comes to the hermeneutical work of isolating what an author really thought, we’re probably not obliged to consider everything that they did publish but we’re certainly not entitled to ignore everything that they didn’t.
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