Hey, I'm Paul. I'll probably mostly read german books though.
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A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …
"I have to sit in a hole behind an almirah and try to create a mass movement. Once I was a queen. Now I'm a revolutionary. [...]"
— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 161)
Supporting the economy, paying for healthcare, creating new jobs, preventing a climate apocalypse: how can we pay for it all? …
A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …
Haleya Kote heard more than once the story of the heroic protester who dared to stand alone at the heart of the bazaar distributing pamphlets. When the DAS squad arrived to arrest him they found that the sheets of paper he was distributing were blank. No text was written on them, there were no drawings or coded symbols, nothing at all. Somehow this blankness angered the DAS team even more than slogans or cartoons would have. "What does this mean?" they demanded. "Why isn't there any message written here?" "There's no need," the protester replied. "Everything is clear."
— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 151)
A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …
[..]. the people in the new streets, and in the army camp beyond, were behaving peculiarly, as if they, too had been driven a little crazy by their incomprehension of their own existence, and were incapable of dealing with the fact of having been brought into being out out of nowhere. There was a good deal of shouting, and of crying, and some of the people were rolling on the ground and kicking their legs in the air, punching the air as if to say, "Where am I, let me out of here".
— Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Page 21)
This reminds me of how the experience of the crow people was described in "Radical Hope" by Jonathan Lear after being forced to move into a reservation where there previous life was impossible.
A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and occasionally ruled.
Menschen über dreißig kennen oft nicht einmal ihre Namen, für jüngere Jahrgänge sind sie Topstars: Influencer. Junge Erwachsene und sogar …
Menschen über dreißig kennen oft nicht einmal ihre Namen, für jüngere Jahrgänge sind sie Topstars: Influencer. Junge Erwachsene und sogar …
Kurz vor seinem Tod erzählte Plenty Coups, der letzte große Häuptling der Crow, seine Geschichte – bis zu einem gewissen …
Kurz vor seinem Tod erzählte Plenty Coups, der letzte große Häuptling der Crow, seine Geschichte …
Das Buch handelt von der Zerstörung der Kultur der Crow Indianer. Wobei deren Verständnis der Welt und des Lebens komplett zerstört wurde.
In meinem Kopf hängen geblieben ist der Satz "Ich lebe ein Leben das ich nicht verstehe" von einem Crow, die das verschwinden der Büffelherden und den Umzug ins Reservat erlebt hat.
Kurz vor seinem Tod erzählte Plenty Coups, der letzte große Häuptling der Crow, seine Geschichte …
Ich hab es geschenkt bekommen, deswegen habe ich es angefangen zu lesen.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered …
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
I think I liked that book.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Dex couldn't easily define what they felt as they looked at the place. On the one hand, sustainable dwellings like this were the progenitors of the buildings people lived in now, and it was important to remember that such places had existed pre-Transition. not everything in the Factory Age burned oil. There had been those who had seen the writing on the wall, who had made places such as this to serve as an example of what could be.
— A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Page 128)
I felt like this was an invitation to do something like that
