July 2010
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December 2009
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“I’ve managed the business side and I’ve managed the creative side...”
– RZA’s The Wu-Tang Manual
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“1902: Saint Pierre
Only the Condemned Is Saved
On the island of Martinique,...”
– Eduardo Galeano’s Century of the Wind
This is a lyrical collection of vignettes that spans the history of Latin America from 1900 to around 1980. It is the ultimate mind bender, showing many of America’s political, economic, and cultural influences from a totally inverted perspective....
November 2009
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“All of us, you see, have two senses of sight, just as we have two senses of...”
– Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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““Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an...”
– Michael Chrichton’s Sphere
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“Lemuel indicated the apartment with a wave of his hand. “All these...”
– Philip K. Dick’s “Null-O”.
The Null-O’s go onto to try and destroy the world with “E-bombs” so that the Earth can return to a state of homogenous matter.
“And then he would be able to see another area, a region farther beyond. He was...”
– Philip K. Dick’s “The Golden Man”
This is referring to how an alien man sees time, as past, present, and future all at the same moment.
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar...”
– Vonnegut’s Slaugtherhouse-Five
“You ever put a full-length mirror on the floor, and then have a dog stand on...”
– Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five