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That primordial plot. . . .
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Feb. 17th, 2014
A Literary Wonderland
Feb. 17th, 2014 08:18 pmTakes on Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.
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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple
A collection of essays in two sections. It opens with one about how he has come to retirement age and will be leaving his work in the British slums.
They Thought They Were Free
Feb. 17th, 2014 10:21 pmThey Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Sanford Mayer
A book possibly unique in what it contains.
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A book possibly unique in what it contains.
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One piece of world-building I've seen plenty of times in fiction: that the magical creatures, the fairies, the elves, the what-have-you, are created, sustained, and molded by human beliefs in them. They are what we think they are.
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