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@jl21lit @RF21CL When?

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@maryclaremcm @cscott21st Is there another Philosophest before the end of the year?

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p.60: "it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future." Is the future the point of living now? #21Lit

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p.60: "People only notice what you tell them to notice," he said. "And then only if you remind them." Comics and media in America? #21Lit

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@akarppi21st Thank-you for your 710-character explanation on who Henry Valentine Miller is!

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Oscar escapes to a different reality through writing and gives up hedonistic experiences in his life. Which does he really prefer? #21Lit

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Poem at the beginning from "The Schooner Flight". Sailor flees from the islands' materialism through sailing. Similarities to Oscar?#21lit

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@elgobbo5 The broader culture affects one's outlook. By emphasizing Fuku, this society focuses on outside events rather than the self.#21lit

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@elgobbo5 Zafa

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@vda_202 @elgobbo5 In evolution, there is safety in numbers for the prey.

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"What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature... Nations are entities whose laws are written by violence" (444).#21Lit

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@akarppi21st @21OChris And then Huck Finn is quoted by Frobisher on page 439. #21Lit

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"Reputation is king of the public sphere, not the private. It is dethroned by public acts" (456). Is this the worry of the powerful?#21Lit

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"The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken. You'd try to list all the reasons for living, but I left 'em behind" (469). #21Lit

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Jocasta Crommelynck: Jocasta was a Greek queen whose son killed her husband and married her. Crommelin referred to a growth deformity.#21Lit

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The powerful control the truth to serve their needs. Characters in each chapter search for an understanding, like the reader. #21Lit

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Humans twist the truth through their dissemination of chosen facts, lies, and fallacies in order to serve a purpose: Media in Somni.#21Lit

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Discussing the Buddha: "Only the inanimate can be so alive" (329). A reflection on works and stories linking past, present and future?#21Lit

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"The savage sat'fies his needs now" while the "Civ'lized got the same needs too, but he sees further" (303). #21Lit

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The "true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds" (274). Overarching theme? In all the chapters, someone is searching for the real truth.#21Lit