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Originally Posted by demonrail666

 

Henry James, Washington Square

i read that many years ago and i remember the main lines of the story but not much else. well written and all but a bit depressing-- which in retrospective is not wrong but i was in a different, less pessimistic (more deluded?) place at the time. has parallels to daisy miller, i thought. (being purposefully vague here to avoid spoilers).

i think his conservatism turned me off to further readings. was i wrong? (probably.)

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reading right now: various translations of the tao te ching (and comparing them) (i don't read chinese though). also planning to go back to those sumerian texts and cull some proverbs-- city life is city life now or 5000 years ago.