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John’s 2024 Year in Books
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John Everett Branch Jr.
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John Jr.
is on page 169 of 320 of Firesign: It’s hard to get away from chatbots. Chapter 4 of this book, about a Firesign album from 1971, repeatedly discusses what it calls at one point “Joseph Weizenbaum’s foundational mid-1960s chatbot ELIZA� (131).
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is on page 43 of 691 of The Mill on the Floss: These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
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is on page 48 of 320 of Firesign: A cheap morning gag: “Ah, the 60s! I remember them well,� said no one ever.
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| This book—a catalogue with essays that accompanied an exhibition—came into my life more than a quarter-century ago, brought to me from London by a friend, and it’s been with me for three or four moves. Only recently did I notice it and realize I hadn ...more | |
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À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (A la recherche du temps perdu, #2):
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There's a lot of stuff in Volume 2 of A la recherche du temps perdu, and people see different things in it. To me, though, the unifying theme is a continuation of Proust's analysis of how romantic relationships work," Read more of this review » |
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
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“There’s something heroic in a woman�-Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Marianne Faithfull�-who takes great beauty, smokes it down to the filter and grinds it out under her sole.”
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“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”
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“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
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“Information wants to eat brie.”
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