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"Lowryland has a magic section with a routewicth, a trainspotter and a socerer (wand guy) who wants to train her but it is the corporate cold bloodness which is the scary part. Oh and a guy got stabbed to death in the park. A GUEST - which is a no-no for Lowry policy." Dec 03, 2025 10:29AM

 
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Book cover for Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
My understanding of poetry’s consolatory powers has more in common with psychoanalysis as a way of fortifying the self through the acceptance of perpetual unrest. Our
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Jessamyn West
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Jessamyn West

J.D. Salinger
“God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be. ”
J.D. Salinger

Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

P.G. Wodehouse
“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time

Marcel Proust
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

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