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I am the Politician, and i decide your fate"
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Today I discovered that Slack has a Boaty McBoatface emoiji. I (briefly) have hope for corporate America.
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It’s the holidays so I take a break from the stuff I read for work. At the moment it’s Nomeansno - From Obscurity to Oblivion: An Oral History.

Thoroughly enjoying it so far.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Reading actually a book fron an italian weiter called Valerio Massimo Manfredi. My first reading from Him, not my genre
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a little bit sad really as i now own all of Iain M banks Culture novels and due to him being deader than a Norweigian Blue (beautifuol plumage) there aint gonna be no more. re-reading them all now, in the correct order of publication for the first time. RIP Sir!
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This thread shouldn't be dead so I'll allow myself a little contribution here as I come back home from a library with a pile of books, on a regular basis.
Ali Smith, because she's one of the wittiest modern writers (so many literary & art references, the subtlety yet crispness of images).

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And of course, why not some TS Eliot.

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Finished my epic re-read of Iain M Banks Culture series (in publication order this time) and moved onto his other Sci-fi novels, currently 'The Algebraist'. and as i (usually) have a factual book on the go at the same time i am reading 'One Day In September', the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics assassination of 11 Israeli athletes by The Black September Organisation.
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Matthew Syed - Rebel Ideas.

Certain world leaders would do well to read this
Goths have feelings too
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Still working on Waiting For Another War, but also, "Change Your Life: Essential Poems" by Rainer Maria Rilke, and "Antarctica" by Claire Keegan, when I have some time to read on my daily commute.
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In their rags of light
In our rags of light
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Was: Radetzky March by J. Roth and Trade wars are Class wars by M. Pettis and M. Klein
Is: Animal Farm by G. Orwell.
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