A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane
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Last night I read Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending . Yes, the night before it went up against Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil Al...
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As I said on New Year's Day, one of my projects for the year is to keep track of all the reading done by the characters in the fiction t...
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Anthony Trollope's 200th birthday takes place on April 24, and Karen at Books and Chocolate is hosting an Anthony Trollope Bicenntenni...
One of my favorite items; I quoted it frequently to my sons, due both to its brevity as well as its wisdom.
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