ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): reading

Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Reading

Stanisław Lem
SOLARIS

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Reading

Hanif Kureishi
INTIMACY

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Reading

László Krasznahorkai
HERSCHT 07769

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Reading

Vera Brittain
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

Monday, October 13, 2025

Reading

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY
Edited with an introduction by George Walter

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Reading

POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AN ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Tim Kendall

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Reading

Elif Shafak
10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Reading

Eric LaRocca
AT DARK I BECOME LOATHSOME

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Reading

Richard Mirabella
BROTHER AND SISTER ENTER THE FOREST

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Reading

Cecilia Blomdahl
LIFE ON SVALBARD
FINDING HOME ON A REMOTE ISLAND NEAR THE NORTH POLE

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Reading

Jean Giono
A KING ALONE

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Reading

Ralph Waldo Emerson
ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES

Monday, July 28, 2025

Reading

Jean Giono
HILL

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Reading

Henry David Thoreau
WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Reading

Jim Robbins
THE MAN WHO PLANTS TREES
A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Reading

Jean Giono
FRAGMENTS OF A PARADISE

Translated by Paul Eprile

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Reading

Jean Giono
THE SERPENT OF STARS

Translated by Jody Gladding

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Reading

Jean Giono
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Reading

Helen Whybrow
THE SALT STONES - SEASONS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFE

Friday, June 6, 2025

Reading

James Baldwin
ANOTHER COUNTRY

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.