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The Good Soldier Švejk discussion: Books Three and Four—“The Glorious Licking” and “The Glorious Licking Continued”

The major-general inspecting the latrines Illustration by Josef Lada Picture source “Stupid people have to exist too, because if everyone were wise then there would be so much good sense in the world that every other person would be driven crazy by it.” Most resources I’ve read mention that Hašek intended six volumes for The […]

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My Stroke of Insight discussion

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor follows a brain scientist’s stoke and recovery plus the insights she received from the experience. Taylor explains her life before the stroke, covers some basic anatomy and physiology of the brain, details what happened during her stroke, and follows the arduous process […]

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The Painting of You

The Painting of You Author’s Press Series, Vol. 1 ISBN: 978-0-557-12874-7 80 pages. Paper. $10.00From the book’s order page comes this description: Designed and published by William Michaelian, the Author’s Press Series was conceived as a set of relatively inexpensive, uniformly designed titles meant to explore different themes and facets of his writing. The eighty […]

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Nobility of Spirit

Paul L Martin at The Teacher’s View posted a review/summay on Rob Riemen’s book Nobility of Sprit (Yale University Press; $12.00, paperback). His review intrigued me enough to order it—if you’re not familiar with the book, please go read his wonderful summary at the link. There are three essays and a long introduction, all of […]

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Fathers and Children summary

Portrait of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev By Vasily Perov (1872) Picture source Young Man to Middle-Aged Man: ‘You had content but no force.’ Middle-Aged Man to Young Man: ‘And you have force but no content.’ – (The original epigraph to Fathers and Children which was later omitted.) From Henry James’ 1903 article on Turganev: Nothing that […]