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mcknighteous

mcknighteous

Joined October 2017

Freelance editor, full-time reader. 🍁
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World | Aldous Huxley

A thing I forgot: women are "pneumatic" in Brave New World. Every attractive women is pneumatic, pneumatic, pneumatic.

You got other words, guys? Busty? Curvy? Voluptuous? Shapely? Something that doesn't make me think of car tires and machinery?

Pneumaaaaaatic.

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Brave New World | Aldous Huxley
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Well, since I already read some Huxley, I guess I'll revisit this one. Haven't read it since I was 15. I feel like my perspective has shifted since then. Just a tad.

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This is a dense one, but does the best job of describing the indescribable I think I've ever read. Far from being full of hippie nonsense, Huxley's essay approaches psychedelics from a deeply objective standpoint, even while accepting the "holiness", "spiritual oneness", whatever you'd like to call it, of his experience. Could do without the pooh-poohing of modern art, though. You're better than that, Huxley.

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The fact that I started this book at 10 PM and finished at 5 AM speaks for itself. I can tell already that this series will honour its predecessor and be timely as heck to boot. Bless Philip Pullman for encouraging questioning, reasoning, empathy, and scientific discovery in young readers. Love it.

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Hmm.

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I really shouldn't impulse buy ebooks, but there's no way I'm not reading this series.
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#philippullman #thegoldencompass #labellesauvage #kobo #ebook

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The Doors Of Perception | Aldous Huxley
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But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same...

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The bottom shelf - where I keep my #BigBooks

#Riotgrams Day 5

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"We can buck against it all we like, but entropy has a stubbornness."

You can tell it's about entropy on account of the adorable cartoon skull.

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#RiotGrams #CurrentRead

Feels weird to be posting this to social media.

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"There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony... a terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it fills you. If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it and it would have to disappear."

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Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe
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#RiotGrams Day 3 (and my day one I suppose, since I just found out about it). #threewordtitles

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