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Just advocating for one of the bests books i ever read life and opinions of Tristram Shandy a masterpiece full of intelligence, irony, digressions, art, humanity.

I think without this book there would not have been Ulysses from Joyce or other great books.

You will never forget Walter, Trym and most of the characters of the book.

The quality of writing is just exquisite.

Heavily
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Hi @cheshire_ and thanks for the tag.

I will try to answer with as low references as i can:

Abba : knowing me knowing you

Of Montreal : past is a grotesque animal

David Bowie; life on Mars

Genesis : Musical box

Boy Harsher : Tower

Bjork : bachelorette

Polica : black star

Arab Strap : the turning of our bones

Fugazzi : waiting room...
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Hi and first merry christmas to everyone on the site!!!

In these difficult times every community or person even from far has been good to keep at least a link or mental health not too down.

I was not too unlucky in terms of job and had the chance to see at least a little bit of family on holidays. So i say to myself
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Shouldn't education have the role of revealing and reinforcing differences rather than similarities? Virginia Woolf a room of one's own p 145

I couldn't agree more.

I am reading now a very good essay from Viginia Woolf "a room on one's own".

These are some reflections about how in the 19th centuries the women couldn't have a place to create and make much money.

The style is just one of the best possible, the examples are full of sense and i must say Woolf has something special.

I felt that in...
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First happy easter to everyone on the site. It's just cool to find eat choclate eggs or bunnies even in quarantine.

At least this quarantine has put back some really little joys like having bread just or a single piece of meat.

I have read a little during this quarantine and loved the Young Frances from Hartley Lin.

A really nice graphic novel wwith great...
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Ihope that evryone had a super duper nice christmas.

I had really nice gifts like art books from Käthe Hollwitz, comic boots from Seth and one from a french girl which title is "Tulipe" about a bear named Tulipe and his friends, like a bird, a tortoise, that have questions about life.

It's cool in a nonsense way.

My parents health as a little bit...
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I am today 39 years old and i celebrated it last saturday with some friends that were super cool.

We had much laughs and good times and the unicorny balloon was the best of it as you can see in the picture.

I made pizzas from friends and some mousse au chocolat for the dessert.

It was one of the best birthdays of my life.