"Because she was only 15 and busy with her growing up, Lucia's periods of reflection were brief and infrequent; but this morning she felt weighted with responsibility."
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"Because she was only 15 and busy with her growing up, Lucia's periods of reflection were brief and infrequent; but this morning she felt weighted with responsibility."
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so-soThis was an okay read. It was mostly stories I was already familiar with. Overall it was okay. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Hi, Sherlockians~
#2 is coming right up! See link below for additional information + a summary (spoiler alert!). Note: “The Cardboard Box“ was actually published between “Silver Blaze“ and “The Yellow Face,“ but the story was completely omitted in the first British publication of THE MEMOIRS OF SH, and we're following that order. We'll discuss why when we read “Box“ later on.
Link: https://bit.ly/3X4Vp3E
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pickThe book is full of clever aphorisms. I noticed within these fragments (often 3rd or 4th hand) the origins of many themes and tropes in Western media over the intervening 2500 years since these fragments began to appear. A quick, but dense read and essential for anyone interested in philosophy.
pickI can‘t capture this. It's just doing a whole lot of stuff, from many different approaches, and it all works. Sometimes it‘s really funny. But mostly I was absorbed. I was reading at a crawl, slowly wading through words that were demanding to me that I slow down and wade through them, and experience them, think of their sound. It‘s just…something. In some non-emotional but deep way I find myself very attached to this. Quite a book.
“In the actual—this painful kingdom of time and chance—are Care, Canker, and Sorrow; with thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity—the Rose of Joy; round it all the Muses sing.”
I remember LMM quoting and discussing this Emerson quote somewhere, maybe in a letter to MacMillan? Now I need to track it down! It‘s interesting to see it referenced here, in a children‘s book that LMM almost certainly read. #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent
