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  • May 3, 2020 at 5:01 pm #114558
    wv
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    Ive been reading so much during this Plague, that I’ve gone through a gazillion yellow hi-liters, making quotes i liked.

    I decided to start posting quotes from all the books i read at GoodReads.

    Today, i typed up these quotes from a Radical gardening book, by Benjamin Vogt.

    Anyway, I think BillyT should do the same. Read books, post quotes.
    Might as well…ya know…cast pearls…

    A New Gardening Ethic:https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/55469474

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    “I wonder how we experience ethical amnesia in regards to climate change, or using non-native plants in our gardens….
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    …Ultimately, every garden is an ideology.”
    Benjamin Vogt

    May 4, 2020 at 1:03 pm #114598
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    I should do that, WV.

    Lately, I’ve been borrowing e-books from the library via the Libby App. Never thought I’d read e-books, evah, cuz, well, I’m kind of a book snob. But that’s what I’m doing now.

    So haven’t been writing stuff down before I send them back.

    Recently finished a Man Booker prize winner, The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes, which had a few sections I could have posted. Strange novel, in a way. Didn’t think much of it until near the end, and then, bam!! A coupla gut punch/emotional wallops, which were twists as well. I think Barnes made the prose “average” on purpose, to make his narrator seem “average.” But the revelations were extra-ordinary . . . reflections on the past and how we get so much of that wrong . . . not only in the midst of that time, but in our memories (much later) of that time . . .

    I also have a feeling that our current age is the best time to read a novel like that. I don’t know if I would have “got it” had I been younger.

    Reading Amsterdam now, by Ian McEwan. Will try to remember to note great sections. Should have done that for the bio of Montaigne, How to Live, by Sarah Bakewell . . . another recent read, and The Weil Conjectures, by Karen Olsson. That latter is a dual bio of Simone and Andre Weil. Excellent books. Fascinating, brilliant siblings. Simone died much, much too young, tragically, indirectly via her own actions. To radically oversimplify matters, she died out of profound empathy for the suffering of others.

    May 4, 2020 at 4:48 pm #114600
    wv
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    Billy_T wrote:

    I should do that, WV.

    Lately, I’ve been borrowing e-books….

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    Hell yeah.

    A lot of folks dont have time to read a whole book — but just the right Quote…

    I have a good time trying to limit myself to a handful of quotes. Its a game. Can i sum up the book in a handful of quotes. Just to help someone get the main idea of the author….etc.

    Goodreads is a good spot for em. Mainstreamers there. But smart mainstreamers. English majors. Liberals. Etc. Probly dont see many radical quotes.

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