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At age fifty he viewed himself, after publication of two books of nonfiction, one on the war, the other a personal account of the Irish troubles, plus the short story collection and innumerable articles for national magazines, as a conundrum, a man unable to define his commitment or understand the secret of his own navel, a literary gnome. He serio
... See moreWilliam Kennedy • Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, – or from one of our elder poets, – in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addit
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Dematerializing money into an immediately available credit form not only disguised its actual cash value and thus encouraged wagering, it also mitigated the revenue-compromising limitations of human motor capacities by removing unwieldy coins from the gambling exchange.
Natasha Dow Schüll • Addiction by Design
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’