"New York has always been a commercial community, and there are not more than three families in it who can claim an aristocratic origin in the real sense of the world."
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"New York has always been a commercial community, and there are not more than three families in it who can claim an aristocratic origin in the real sense of the world."
pickOn the dust jacket of my library book is written, "Somewhere in the inferno there must be considerable annoyance" - NYT.
This book is my second favorite of Malcolm Gladwell books, the first being Tipping Point.
My second book of Churchill - greatly looking forward to be immersed in the unique friendship this time!
panThe idea is interesting that may just need an Instagram post, not the whole manuscript.
"...the secular mind will never acknowledge the world of the intellect, until it sees something made weighty by the presence of the Higgs boson."
A Monday morning reading: a new book and second book of December 👍 one day i hope to play the book bingo like other Littens :-) 🙋🏻♀️🙏
pickIs it possible to feel nostalgic about something you have not experienced? That good.
I want to read more of bohemian lives during the postwar period in New York. I prefer novellas to long, factual essays for the moment. Any suggestions? 🙏🏻
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
Witness the doctrine of Predestination which shows (truly enough) that eternal reality is not waiting for a future in which to be real; but at the price of removing Freedom which is the deeper truth of the two.
pickA comfort in finding common beliefs between mine and the author's-what a pleasant surprise.
Although it is said that books are never written to seek agreements on a view from its readers, I cannot help but inclining towards giving thumbs up for the author that shares my beliefs but take them to a deeper truth and of course much more painstaking realization from it.
A book that challenges your prejudice at the least of it all - not really recommended for a night reading since it rolls your head side to side
"But once somebody invented air-conditioning, there really was no turning back."
We needed this light-weightness today.
I am a very (x2) slow reader, and due to covid, am extremely distracted by things inside my cozy one bed in Manhattan. I took out time to read outside at the park yesterday ALONE - wo my family and dog. I was able to get myself sunk into building of the storyline finally ... equivalent to perhaps a half an hr or so if it were the movie ...
slow reader on slow thursday morning ...
Have professional paper goals and this book stands in the way 💕
Your life is before you. You should not accept the first person who comes along. You have not met many people. To be stupid about one's life-a crime.
