“You weren’t always a vampire, were you?” he began.
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realise this possibility.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
― Living with Music: Jazz Writings
― Living with Music: Jazz Writings
“I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
― The Liars' Club
― The Liars' Club
American Westerns
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The American Westerns group provides a forum for the appreciation and discussion of classic and current fiction of the Old West.
The American Westerns group provides a forum for the appreciation and discussion of classic and current fiction of the Old West.
Greek and Roman Mythology
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— last activity May 30, 2023 12:33PM
We read classical Greek and Roman texts as well as modern novels/poetry based off of Greek and Roman mythology!
We read classical Greek and Roman texts as well as modern novels/poetry based off of Greek and Roman mythology!
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