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Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

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Ok now do NYT columnists

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ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

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Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

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June Jordan, An Address to the Students of Columbia University During Their Anti-Apartheid Sit-in, April, 1985; in On Call. Political Essays, South End Press, Boston, MA, 1985, pp. 117-122

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last day of class for the semester! i'm free. my students are free. we're all free

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Summer holidays. I started reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I’ve wanted to read this book for a while.

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Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

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joan didion self respect essay joan didion self respect essay joan didion self respect essay

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Can I be controversial for one sec

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the feminine urge to spend all your time in bookstores, to sip tea in cafes, to wear ribbons in your hair and always have a book in your bag

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-"‘I don’t see what’s so hard about being a woman. At least, not as long as she’s got a man.’ - ‘That’s just it,’ said she. ‘Hasn’t it ever struck you that that’s a sort of humiliating necessity?’"

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

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October, Louise Glück

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there is only one of everything, margaret atwood