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Japanese Books For Everyone
Here are some personally curated novels that one must read to get insights on Japanese literature. These classics will sweep you off your feet. credits: Chroniqled
Regarding the Pain of Others
A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion are we to prevent war? For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people w
the real twin darkness
(reading ‘white nights’) this is the worst, what could be more dreadful than this? (reading ‘the meek one’) oh! that's what. #dostoevsky #classics
Dante, Love that moves the sun and other stars
“Those idiotic strivings of the human mind! How flawed their arguments and logic are, driving our wings to flap in downward flight.”