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Book Freak

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Book Freak #227: The Perfume of Silence

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The Perfume of Silence is a collection of dialogues between nonduality teacher Francis Lucille and his students that points directly to the consciousness underlying all experience and shows how recognizing it dis...

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Book Freak #226: Ways of the Six-Footed

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I came across Ways of the Six-Footed, a collection of essays by Anna Botsford Comstock, Cornell’s first woman professor, while visiting the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. The museum has a nice read...

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A Tale of Greed From the 1920s

The White Rose, by B. Traven

The White Rose (1929) is a novel by B. Traven, the mysterious author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. An American oil tycoon wants a Mexican family’s hacienda because it sits on an ocean of oil, and the own...

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Book Freak #225: Aretha: From These Roots

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Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) began singing as a child in the 1950s at her father’s church in Detroit. Reverend C.L. Franklin became her manager when she was 12, so she could sing on the "gospel caravan" tour cir...

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The 1930 poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

Intellectual Things by Stanley Kunitz

Intellectual Things (1930) is Stanley Kunitz’s first book, published when he was 24. It has poems about the body, death, and the limits of reason. Kunitz was a lifelong anti-censorship activist, won th...

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