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from my struggle book 1 posted in literature by ratsnamgod
...It is the fourth of March 2008. I am sitting in my office, surrounded by books from floor to ceiling, listening to the Swedish band Dungen and thinking about what I have written and where it is leading...Outside, at the front of the enormous Hilton Hotel, which is still in shadow, the lifts glide up and down in three glass shafts. Next door there is a redbrick building which, judging by all the bay windows, dormers, and arches, must be from the end of the nineteenth century or early twentieth. Beyond that, there is a glimpse of a tiny stretch of Magistrat Park with its denuded trees and green grass, where a motley gray house in a seventies style breaks the view, and forces the eye up to the sky, which for the first time in several weeks is a clear blue.
- My Struggle Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
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from my struggle book 1 posted in literature by ratsnamgod
All day long a regular stream of men went in and out of the door to US VIDEO, and having lived here for close to a year, in nine cases out of ten I could pick out who was about to go in and who would walk by.
- My Struggle Book 1, Karl Ove Knausgaard
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from ready player one posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
Then I knew where I was. And who I was.
I was David Lightman, Matthew Broderick's character in the movie WarGames. And this was his first scene in the film.
I was in the movie.
I took a quick glance around and saw a detailed replica of 20 Grand Palace, the combination arcade/pizza joint featured in the film.
– Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
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from david foster wallace posted in literature by pete_nice
For the commencement speech to the graduating class of 2005, writer David Foster Wallace delivered a speech on education as a tool for consciousness, empathy and compassion.
The speech at the Bailey House was later turned into a 144-page book published by Little, Brown.
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from gabriel garcía márquez posted in literature by speedy_dee
On March 6, 1927, Gabriel García Márquez was born in this village in northern Colombia. The writer grew up with his maternal grandparents here, and today his home is known as the Casa Museo (or Museum House).
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