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Martin Amis's "The Zone of Interest" - 24 views

www.newyorker.com/...death-factory

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      rbyers on 04 Oct 14
       
      This word choice is very powerful.
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'The Giving Tree': Tender Story of Unconditional Love or Disturbing Tale of Selfishness... - 13 views

www.nytimes.com/...rbing-tale-of-selfishness.html

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      rbyers on 04 Oct 14
       
      This is as very insightful quote. They are saying that the treatment of this tree is often how men treat women.
  • The plain language complexes through each repetition, until it’s as insided-out and upsided-down as the language of “Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook,” the one book, worked on for more than 20 years, that Silverstein, the prolific writer who gave us the peppermint gale of most every elementary-school literature syllabus, kept not quite finishing.
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      rbyers on 04 Oct 14
       
      I don't think I would have enjoyed a book with language as plain as this.
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  • The boy and the tree are both “flawed,” and in the most old-fashioned way, their flaws, which are also their characters, determine their fates.
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      rbyers on 04 Oct 14
       
      I was quite confused about what the book was actually achieving or about but I think the sentence sums it up.
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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views

historymatters.gmu.edu/40

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      rbyers on 02 Oct 14
       
      This is a very insightful quote. I think he is saying they can be separate but equal.
  • one of the most notable figures in a nation of seventy millions
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      rbyers on 02 Oct 14
       
      Booker T. Washington's speech made him very famous. He is one of the most notable out of seventy million.
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  • Among his own people, however, Mr. Washington has encountered the strongest and most lasting opposition, amounting at times to bitterness, and even to-day continuing strong and insistent even though largely silenced in outward expression by the public opinion of the nation.
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      rbyers on 02 Oct 14
       
      The strongest opposition from Mr. Washington has come from his own people. I wonder why that is?
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