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LittleMissProcrastination
Reclusive Duck Woman. Artist. Writer. GR Refugee.
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Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World
Madame Tussaud: and the History of Waxworks
A Great Understanding of the Human Condition
"Young Adam was always an obedient child. Something in him shrank from violence, from contention, from the silent shrieking tensions that can rip at a house. He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone. He covered his life with a veil of vagueness, while behind his quiet eyes a rich full life went on."
East of Eden is one of my favourite Steinbeck novels. For me, no writer understands and portrays so well the tragic complexity of the human condition. Damn depressing though...
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