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"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."
--Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find three links, [1] to the older archive and [2] to the recent editions and [3] to the old web page.
"Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts is the first Literary Journal to be published on the Internet (1994)."
The oldest archives are here:
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/index.html
Newer issues from about 2017 to date are here:
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/KlausGerken
The ugly old Internet page and archive is here:
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/html/2017/17-02/users.synapse.net/kgerken/index.html
Enjoy!
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#FinishedReading this slim volume of early 50s #SciFi by #AEVanVogt . The goofy title and stories of visiting inhabitable Mars and Venus makes this look like super old fashioned stuff, but that, like much else in this book, is an illusion. This is pure Cold War paranoia, with disorienting temporal and character shifts, mind control drugs, sinister conspiracies etc, and in general this feels like a bridge to the high points of Philip K Dick. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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Happy release day to me!
https://johnwilker.scifibooksalactic-instability/
Check it out! Buy it on whatever platform you enjoy reading on!
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Well, I suppose there's a first time for everything.
Today's review of The Left Hand of Dog calls the book 'too normal'.
If you'd like to read an ordinary, typical, common book about an aro-ace agender IT project manager and her dog who get kidnapped by giant space bunnies, click now. Prices are going up … soon.
https://whitehartfiction.co.uk/collection/starship-teapot-series
@bookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon #books #scifi #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #TheLeftHandOfDog #SiClarke
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Short Stories.
Love ‘em, hate ‘em, somewhere in the middle?
Years ago one of my dear friends (who is a huge bookworm) and I were talking. She told me she hated short stories. I can’t remember why or if she even told me a reason. This conversation has stuck with me, because I struggle with them- why? I have no idea. I have tried different tactics to overcome this. I am s l o w l y reading one now, but I don’t gravitate toward it (not the one pictured, but it’s one I really want to read if I can ever get there).
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
#books #photography #fediverse #shortstories @bookstodon
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Spadework for a Palace, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, trans John Batki. You are a librarian with a great plan to create a Permanently Closed Library, which you record with other thoughts in a single
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Spadework for a Palace, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, trans John Batki. You are a librarian with a great plan to create a Permanently Closed Library, which you record with other thoughts in a single sentence that stretches 100 pages. 5 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈.
@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #libraries #librarians #architecture #novela
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Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations
Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world.
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Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World
This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire.
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The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also
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The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality.
@bookstodon
#books
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#diary
#WWII
#Nanking
#JohnRabe
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Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture
Collectively, the articles here provide well-documented challenges to conventional wisdom about that for which people actually used Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, and Hebrew. This conference was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and social theorists to explore what writing meant to politics in the ancient Near East.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#AncientNearEast
#languages
#writing
#politics
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Anger, Mercy, Revenge
"Raging with an inhuman desire to inflict pain in combat and shed blood in punishment, it cares nothing for itself provided it can harm the other: it throws itself upon the very weapons raised against it, hungry for a vengeance that will bring down the avenger too."
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#philosophy
#Seneca
#anger
#revenge
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