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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 148 | Location 2256-2260 | Added on Thursday, January 17, 2019 9:57:54 PM

The phenomenologist Alfred Schutz pointed out that our sensual memories, such as that of the eyewitness, fade quite quickly, but they also get idealized according to social norms, and in doing so they actually become more vivid (even if false); they become something that one can hold on to. Language plays a decisive role in this process: we articulate our experiences. We do so in the particular language we are born into, making use of the prevailing stock of ready-made phrases that currently circulate. In doing this we subject them to “typifying schemata of experience.” These typifications both idealize and socialize our originally private, sensual experience.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 148 | Location 2263-2264 | Added on Thursday, January 17, 2019 9:58:17 PM

Through social typifications in language, our memories get bent toward whatever is allowed or encouraged by authoritative voices or by the larger swirl of democratic opinion.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 151 | Location 2309-2310 | Added on Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:03:03 PM

Pippin puts Hegel’s point sharply when he writes, “You have not executed an intention successfully unless others attribute to you the deed and intention you attribute to yourself.”
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 164 | Location 2512-2517 | Added on Friday, January 18, 2019 8:55:43 PM

To regard oneself as a collection of synapses and neurotransmitters is to take a certain stance toward oneself. I don’t think “I am in despair because I lost my job,” I think “My serotonin levels are low, and there’s a pill for that.” This is to shift from a first-person perspective in which I inhabit my own experience and interpret it, giving reasons for it that refer to events in the world, to a third-person perspective in which I objectify myself and the reasons I invoke are material causes located inside my head.7 This naturalistic determinism would have horrified Kant, but note that such inwardness gets apparent warrant from his insistence that we conceive our will as free of all those sources of heteronomy that arise from our external circumstances.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 168 | Location 2569-2572 | Added on Friday, January 18, 2019 9:03:33 PM

Recall the quotation from Simone Weil: “Something in our soul has a far more violent repugnance for true attention than the flesh has for bodily fatigue. This something is much more closely connected with evil than is the flesh. That is why every time that we really concentrate our attention, we destroy the evil in ourselves.”
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 179 | Location 2730-2732 | Added on Friday, January 18, 2019 9:21:13 PM

There is some great popular music these days, but at present it would be hard to name a band that aspires to the epochal stature of a Led Zeppelin. We seem to feel ourselves latecomers to history, as though the human story has played itself out and there remain no great deeds to be done. What is left is to play with the forms we have inherited, sampling and referencing.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 183 | Location 2800-2801 | Added on Friday, January 18, 2019 9:55:59 PM

Subjectivism leaves people isolated. Moral and aesthetic judgments have the same status as mere sensations, such as an itch—they are entirely one’s own.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 183 | Location 2802-2804 | Added on Friday, January 18, 2019 9:56:24 PM

The dogmatic inarticulacy of subjectivism—perhaps we should call it moral autism—leaves people bereft of any public language in which to express their intuitions about the better and worse, the noble and shameful, the beautiful and ugly, and assert them as valid.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 192 | Location 2942-2943 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:46:49 PM

The ecology of attention that prevails among persons in a liberal public culture is one of polite separation.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 193 | Location 2957-2959 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:48:45 PM

most people? I like to be tied up—am I sick? The normative center of gravity now resides in the middle of a distribution, rather than coming from a religious interdiction or parental guidance, on the one hand, or from a cultivated, proudly antinomian sense of oneself as a pervert and sinner, on the other.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 198 | Location 3027-3028 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:57:43 PM

As the inhabitant of a family, religion, or locale, a gay person was likely to stay in the closet. With the rise of identity politics, one jumped out of the closet and into the box.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 199 | Location 3041-3045 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 9:59:49 PM

Now we are fascinated with “the wisdom of crowds” and “the hive mind.” We are told that there is a superior global intelligence arising in the Web itself. This collective mind is more meta, more synoptic and synthetic, than any one of us, and aren’t these the defining features of intelligence? Of course all this crowd-loving lines up pretty well with Silicon Valley’s distaste for the concept of intellectual property, and with the fact that there is a lot more money to be made as an aggregator of “content” than as a producer of it. (It is the aggregator who controls advertisers’ access to consumers’ eyeballs.)
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 199 | Location 3046-3047 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 10:00:01 PM

“Ideology” could be taken (somewhat narrowly) to mean an idea that happens to line up with the material interests of those who espouse it.
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 144 | Location 2203-2207 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 10:17:05 PM

The oldest known rock art in North America shows up within the same time bracket about 170 miles south of Paisley Caves. Images are etched into a gallery of dolmen-sized boulders along an evaporated lake edge in northwest Nevada, minerals in the etch marks radiocarbon dated to 14,800 years ago. The art is not like Chauvet in France, no delicate animals or handprints. The rock is porous and rough, the images entirely geometric, in patterns as complicated as stained glass: hand-sized honeycombs, geometric cross hatches, plant-like upshoots, the oldest known rock art in the Americas.
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 145 | Location 2219-2221 | Added on Saturday, January 19, 2019 10:18:48 PM

At the bottom of this dig, twelve feet below the surface and beneath this layer of ash, archaeologists found a single artifact, a small piece of orange agate worked by human hand into a scraper. Its position shows that the scraper has to be even older than the volcano eruption, a pin in the map around 16,000 years ago.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 217 | Location 3325-3326 | Added on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:30:37 PM

The saying “Electricity is here to stay” suggested that the growing prevalence of electricity was due to the working out of some rational necessity, and to deny this was to reveal oneself as “out of touch with reality.”
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 217 | Location 3323-3325 | Added on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:31:03 PM

In the musical world as elsewhere, there seems to have been a sense of techno-inevitability, a readiness to regard technology as a force with its own magical imperatives, rather than as an instrument of human intentions.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 241 | Location 3691-3696 | Added on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 10:09:46 PM

As we have seen, the dialectic between tradition and innovation allows the organ maker to understand his own inventiveness as a going further in a trajectory he has inherited. This is very different from the modern concept of creativity, which seems to be a crypto-theological concept: creation ex nihilo. For us the self plays the role of God, and every eruption of creativity is understood to be like a miniature Big Bang, coming out of nowhere. This way of understanding inventiveness cannot connect us to others, or to the past. It also falsifies the experience to which we give the name “creativity” by conceiving it to be something irrational, incommunicable, unteachable.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 242 | Location 3706-3708 | Added on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 10:11:01 PM

The point isn’t to replicate the conclusions of tradition (here, the use of oak), but rather to enter into the same problems as the ancients and make them one’s own. That is how a tradition remains alive.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 243 | Location 3721-3737 | Added on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 10:13:40 PM

For the most part, this Enlightenment understanding views tradition as a darkness that grips men’s minds and a habit of inflexibility to be rooted out. But this view gets a lot wrong. As we saw also in the case of scientific apprenticeship, in the development of any real competence we don’t judge everything for ourselves, starting from scratch each morning. Rather, we have to begin by taking a lot on faith, submitting to the authority of our teachers, who learned from their teachers. The individualist conceit that we do otherwise, and the corresponding discredit that falls on tradition, makes people feel isolated. As we learned from Tocqueville, this isolation brings with it a certain anxiety, which we try to relieve by looking around to see what others—our contemporaries—are thinking and feeling. The rugged individualist becomes the statistical self. The statistical self is the kind that is knowable in bulk, a suitable subject around which to design manufactured experiences. We increasingly encounter the world through representations, produced according to the economies of scale of mass culture. In the worst cases, such as machine gambling, they are guided by a design intention that is inimical to our aspiration to autonomy, even while relying on that aspiration as a psychic hook: manufactured experiences promise to save us from confrontations with a world that resists our will. The workers at Taylor and Boody are not isolated in this way. They understand the long story of organ making as their own, and find for themselves a place in it. In this highly situated self-understanding, the excellence they reach for in their work expresses their individuality: an earned independence of judgment, a deepened understanding that is the fruit of their own labors. Some critics will say that these craftspeople have “retreated from the modern world.” I think nearly the opposite. We have come to accept a condition of retreat from the world as normal. The point of the organ shop example is to help us see what it would look like to inhabit an ecology of attention that puts one squarely in the world.
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 251 | Location 3840-3840 | Added on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 10:23:10 PM

Affection for the world as it is:
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World Beyond Your Head : On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (9780374708443) (Crawford, Matthew B.)
- Your Highlight on page 252 | Location 3855-3857 | Added on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:25:14 PM

Such are the rules of gravity and buoyancy that surfing is possible. That’s the kind of universe we inhabit. Being alert to such possibilities, and giving their occurrence in the world their due in wonder: to encounter things in this way is basically erotic, in the sense that we are drawn out of ourselves toward beauty.
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 164 | Location 2502-2504 | Added on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:47:36 PM

When I saw the Parson’s Island artifacts, I thought they didn’t look American. Then I wondered: What does look American? Being from this continent has never been one thing. Everyone here came from someplace else, even if from underground. The stories are all about arrival.
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 189 | Location 2884-2886 | Added on Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:54:05 PM

13,400-year-old kill site called El Fin del Mundo—the End of the World—was excavated in the desert of northwest Mexico, where along with the remains of at least two butchered gomphotheres—long-jawed, four-tusked, elephant-like animals—spearpoints, flakes, scrapers, and an exquisite, completely intact transparent quartz fluted point were found.
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 189 | Location 2884-2886 | Added on Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:54:12 PM

A 13,400-year-old kill site called El Fin del Mundo—the End of the World—was excavated in the desert of northwest Mexico, where along with the remains of at least two butchered gomphotheres—long-jawed, four-tusked, elephant-like animals—spearpoints, flakes, scrapers, and an exquisite, completely intact transparent quartz fluted point were found.
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 197 | Location 3018-3023 | Added on Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:08:24 PM

1988 ethnographic study of hunter-gatherers in far northern Australia found that certain kinds of rock have cultural significance. People walked hundreds of miles to get them. Lester Hiatt, the late scholar of Australian Aboriginal societies, wrote, “At the quarry, the men spoke of the stone growing up in the ground. Only here at Ngilipitji did true ‘killing stone’ grow. The cross-sections of weathered rinds were compared to that of a kidney, with the best interior stone of pinky-grey silcrete referred to as djukurr or ‘fat.’ An esoteric oblique meaning of this word is power. It is this mystical power derived from supernatural sources integral to the site that gives the Ngilipitji stone blades their stupendous killing force. Once struck, man or beast is doomed.”
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 253 | Location 3870-3870 | Added on Sunday, January 27, 2019 9:38:04 PM

around caribou drives. The largest site is Bull
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Atlas of a Lost World (Craig Childs)
- Your Highlight on page 253 | Location 3870-3870 | Added on Sunday, January 27, 2019 9:38:08 PM

around caribou drives. The largest site is Bull
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 5 | Location 65-66 | Added on Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:16:21 PM

rivers, with little in it to love; yet a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably. If it were not so there would be little told of it.
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 5 | Location 64-66 | Added on Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:17:27 PM

Here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it, or quick downpours called cloud-bursts for violence. A land of lost rivers, with little in it to love; yet a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably. If it were not so there would be little told of
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 5 | Location 64-66 | Added on Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:17:32 PM

Here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it, or quick downpours called cloud-bursts for violence. A land of lost rivers, with little in it to love; yet a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably. If it were not so there would be little told of it.
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 23 | Location 269-272 | Added on Friday, February 1, 2019 10:24:53 PM

It is said that love makes us blind to the failings of the loved one. But the opposite view can be taken, namely that it is precisely for the good points that love opens the eyes. Many pass by these good points without notice. One, however, perceives them, and just because he does, love awakens in his soul. What else has he done except perceive what hundreds have failed to see? Love is not theirs, because they lack the perception.
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 291-293 | Added on Friday, February 1, 2019 10:28:16 PM

We erect this barrier between ourselves and the world as soon as consciousness is first kindled in us. But we never cease to feel that, in spite of all, we belong to the world, that there is a connecting link between it and us, and that we are beings within, and not without, the universe.
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 293-295 | Added on Friday, February 1, 2019 10:28:35 PM

This feeling makes us strive to bridge over this opposition, and ultimately the whole spiritual striving of mankind is nothing but the bridging of this opposition. The history of our spiritual life is a continuous seeking after union between ourselves and the world. Religion, Art, and Science follow, one and all, this goal.
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 30 | Location 358-362 | Added on Friday, February 1, 2019 10:38:48 PM

This quality of Nature in us we must seek out, and then we shall discover our connection with her once more. Dualism neglects to do this. It considers the human mind as a spiritual entity utterly alien to Nature and attempts somehow to hitch it on to Nature. No wonder that it cannot find the coupling link. We can find Nature outside of us only if we have first learnt to know her within us. The Natural within us must be our guide to her. This marks out our path of inquiry. We shall attempt no speculations concerning the interaction of Mind and Matter.
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The Trail Book (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 46 | Location 704-706 | Added on Saturday, February 2, 2019 6:54:17 PM

The Blackfoot nodded. "Fire is a very old friend of Man," he said; "so old that the mere sight of it comforts him; they have come a long way together." "Now I know," said Oliver, "why
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The Trail Book (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 46 | Location 704-706 | Added on Saturday, February 2, 2019 6:54:23 PM

The Blackfoot nodded. "Fire is a very old friend of Man," he said; "so old that the mere sight of it comforts him; they have come a long way together." "Now I know," said Oliver, "why
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The Trail Book (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 46 | Location 704-706 | Added on Saturday, February 2, 2019 6:54:28 PM

The Blackfoot nodded. "Fire is a very old friend of Man," he said; "so old that the mere sight of it comforts him; they have come a long way together." "Now I know," said Oliver, "why you called the first dog Friend-at-the-Back."
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The Trail Book (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 996-996 | Added on Sunday, February 3, 2019 6:44:00 PM

places. It's only the ones that are too dull to be remembered that have to be printed."
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The Hummingbird's Daughter (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 201 | Location 3073-3074 | Added on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 10:51:56 PM

The honeysuckle made the People particularly happy, since it attracted holy hummingbirds, and as long as hummingbirds hovered nearby, things would be all right.
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The Hummingbird's Daughter (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 228 | Location 3491-3499 | Added on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:40:34 PM

“Why do I pierce my ear?” “I know! I know that one! Huila told me!” “Well?” “You pierce your ear to show God you are no longer deaf! You are ready to listen!” He was surprised. “Very good,” he said. “Now, here is another question. Why is it my left ear?” “I do not remember.” “Because the left side is the side of the heart.” “If it is the side of the heart . . .” “Then I show the Creator I am truly, deeply, listening.” Teresita nodded. He continued: “Christians don’t like the left side, but Indians do. Christians have forgotten their hearts. When a medicine woman hugs you, if she means it, she will move you to the side and put her heart on yours.
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The House of Broken Angels (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 215-216 | Added on Sunday, February 10, 2019 10:41:40 PM

Mexicans liked food hot, home cooked, and lots of
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The House of Broken Angels (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 215-215 | Added on Sunday, February 10, 2019 10:41:46 PM

Mexicans liked
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The House of Broken Angels (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 215-216 | Added on Sunday, February 10, 2019 10:41:49 PM

Mexicans liked food hot, home cooked, and lots of it.
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Draft No. 4 (John McPhee)
- Your Highlight on page 153 | Location 2344-2347 | Added on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:24:33 PM

Easier with some writers than with others. It’s as if you were removing freight cars here and there in order to shorten a train—or pruning bits and pieces of a plant for reasons of aesthetics or plant pathology, not to mention size. Do not do violence to the author’s tone, manner, nature, style, thumbprint. Measure cumulatively the fragments you remove and see how many lines would be gone if the prose were reformatted. If you kill a widow, you pick up a whole line.
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The Patch (John McPhee)
- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 268-269 | Added on Saturday, February 16, 2019 9:19:17 PM

Compulsions are easy to come by and hard to explain.
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 453-453 | Added on Friday, February 22, 2019 1:22:51 PM

The first point, then, to notice about thought is that it is the unobserved element in our ordinary mental life.
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 454-455 | Added on Friday, February 22, 2019 1:24:17 PM

Whatever I do not myself produce appears in my field of consciousness as an object;
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity / A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods (Rudolf Steiner)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 454-457 | Added on Friday, February 22, 2019 1:24:39 PM

Whatever I do not myself produce appears in my field of consciousness as an object; I contrast it with myself as something the existence of which is independent of me. It forces itself upon me. I must accept it as the presupposition of my thinking. As long as I think about the object, I am absorbed in it, my attention is turned on it. To be thus absorbed in the object is just to contemplate it by thought.
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The House of Broken Angels (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 135 | Location 2064-2066 | Added on Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:02:22 PM

Salt and seaweed and shrimp and distance. The bitter stench of beached dolphins turning to gray swamps on the rocks. The scent of mysterious Sinaloa somehow coming across the gulf. The choking reek of guano, and the delicious scent of a million miles’ worth of clean, rushing wind.
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The House of Broken Angels (Luis Alberto Urrea)
- Your Highlight on page 136 | Location 2073-2075 | Added on Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:03:12 PM

If the rain came, the creeping smell of the desert going wet. And diesel and exhaust, especially the big belching trucks and ancient buses. From alleys, the stench of sewage and rotten fruit. Flowers, yes. Flowers. They were not just colorful—but their scents colored the air.
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The Astral Body: And Other Astral Phenomena (Arthur Edward Powell)
- Your Highlight on page 30 | Location 455-456 | Added on Thursday, February 28, 2019 9:51:28 PM

It may be noted here that Kâma, or desire, is just beginning to be active in the mineral kingdom, where it expresses itself as chemical affinity.
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 35-36 | Added on Sunday, March 3, 2019 11:18:48 PM

The earth is no wanton to give up all her best to every comer, but keeps a sweet, separate intimacy for each.
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 10 | Location 149-150 | Added on Sunday, March 3, 2019 11:38:41 PM

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 371-375 | Added on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:41:10 PM

The Pocket Hunter had gotten to that point where he knew no bad weather, and all places were equally happy so long as they were out of doors. I do not know just how long it takes to become saturated with the elements so that one takes no account of them. Myself can never get past the glow and exhilaration of a storm, the wrestle of long dust-heavy winds, the play of live thunder on the rocks, nor past the keen fret of fatigue when the storm outlasts physical endurance. But prospectors and Indians get a kind of a weather shell that remains on the body until death.
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The Patch (John McPhee)
- Your Highlight on page 107 | Location 1627-1631 | Added on Saturday, March 9, 2019 10:26:13 PM

A PROFESSIONAL WRITER, by definition, is a person clothed in self-denial who each and almost every day will plead with eloquent lamentation that he has a brutal burden on his mind and soul, will summon deep reserves of “discipline” as seriatim antidotes to any domestic chore, and, drawing the long sad face of the pale poet, will rise above his dread of his dreaded working chamber, excuse himself from the idle crowd, go into his writing sanctum, shut the door, shoot the bolt, and in lonely sacrifice turn on the Mets game.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 249-251 | Added on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 8:35:30 PM

As the late Nichidatsu Fujii, leader of the Buddhist Nihonzan Myohoji Temple and participant in the Native American Longest Walk of 1978, says, “Civilization does not mean electric lights being installed. It does not mean introducing atomic bombs, either. Civilization means not killing people.”
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 23 | Location 346-349 | Added on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:42:18 PM

Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream about, what we fantasize, what we think—all of these things—twenty-four hours a day. One’s religion, then, is ones life, not merely the ideal life but the life as it is actually lived.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 439-442 | Added on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 9:50:21 PM

On the whole, the history of the Americas (prior to European conquest) reveals a land where most human groups followed, or tried to follow, the “pollen path” (as the Navajo people call it) or the “good, red road” (as the Lakota call it). The pollen path and the red road lead to living life in a sacred manner with continual awareness of the inter-relationships of all forms of life.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 51 | Location 781-783 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:17:56 AM

we see that what the wétiko means by “civilization” is something terrible indeed: a civilization is (it would appear) a society in which there are so many evil or violent or dishonest people that the police, soldiers, and other armed forces of control must almost equal the total population in numbers.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 784-785 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:18:06 AM

is a society where people are “civil”; that is, where they behave so well toward each other that they do not need police or other armed systems of control.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 783-785 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:18:11 AM

On the other hand, I believe that a true civilization is a society where people are “civil”; that is, where they behave so well toward each other that they do not need police or other armed systems of control.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 922-924 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:33:36 PM

The beggar only appears to be humble when, in fact, he is merely fearful or currying favors. Thus also the outward humility of oppressed peasants, workers, or lower-middle class bureaucrats in a wétiko society may mask fear. True humility does not arise from fear, but from a profound sense of one’s place in the universe.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 964-966 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:46:28 PM

“When a man decides to do something he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing
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- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 964-966 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:46:35 PM

“When a man decides to do something he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it.”18
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- Your Highlight on page 81 | Location 1230-1231 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:10:24 PM

But people from the university don’t believe these things . . . they have lost touch with the spiritual forces of the earth . . . They are lost men and their own spirits are starved.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 81 | Location 1237-1239 | Added on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:11:24 PM

part of the process of creating a mátchi world is precisely the sustained effort to brutalize the sensibilities of human beings. In part, this has been (and is) accomplished by denying the spiritual character of humans and other living creatures and by treating them in a demeaning manner.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 97 | Location 1480-1483 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 8:08:30 PM

Sophistication is a nice word, isn’t it? It means “lacking natural simplicity or naiveté” and is derived from “sophist: One who is skillful in devious argumentation.” Isn’t it revealing that one of the favorite words of the European elites, used to describe themselves, points openly towards deviousness and falsity? To lose one’s natural simplicity, sadly, in the wétiko world, means to become a person who hides his true feelings behind a mask which deceives.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 103 | Location 1576-1578 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:25:49 PM

White scholars and popular writers often speak of “human sacrifice” as if it were a practice confined to the Aztecs, Carthaginians, Pacific Islanders, or other non-European peoples. Since 1978, however, perhaps a quarter of a million Indian lives have been sacrificed in Central America for the sake of the social status and profits of wealthy people and corporations.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 104 | Location 1581-1584 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:26:19 PM

Quite the contrary, the greatest and most extensive acts of human sacrifice have been, or are being, carried out by secular forces acting within the framework of ideologies that justify the necessity of sacrificing human lives for some larger goal, be it the attempted Nazi conquest of the Soviet Union, the anti-communist crusade, the earlier Roman Catholic crusade to convert the Americas, or the capitalist’s demand for cheap raw materials and compliant economic fiefdoms.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 104 | Location 1581-1585 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:26:38 PM

Quite the contrary, the greatest and most extensive acts of human sacrifice have been, or are being, carried out by secular forces acting within the framework of ideologies that justify the necessity of sacrificing human lives for some larger goal, be it the attempted Nazi conquest of the Soviet Union, the anti-communist crusade, the earlier Roman Catholic crusade to convert the Americas, or the capitalist’s demand for cheap raw materials and compliant economic fiefdoms. Perhaps most victims are now being sacrificed at the feet of the god “Profit.”
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 103 | Location 1579-1585 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:26:49 PM

We must no longer allow eurocentric scholars to define “human sacrifice” in such a manner as to lead us to believe that a priest in a weird costume must cut the heart out of a victim in order for the act of sacrifice to become human sacrifice. Quite the contrary, the greatest and most extensive acts of human sacrifice have been, or are being, carried out by secular forces acting within the framework of ideologies that justify the necessity of sacrificing human lives for some larger goal, be it the attempted Nazi conquest of the Soviet Union, the anti-communist crusade, the earlier Roman Catholic crusade to convert the Americas, or the capitalist’s demand for cheap raw materials and compliant economic fiefdoms. Perhaps most victims are now being sacrificed at the feet of the god “Profit.”
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 111 | Location 1694-1699 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:36:58 PM

Levi-Strauss, of course, has seen and felt the beauty of this American land as cared for by Native People, and he has also seen the freedom made possible (or at least enhanced) by modest population. But was this a result of mere chance? Levi-Strauss himself notes that “the Nambikwara do not have many children . . . Sexual intercourse is forbidden between parents until the youngest child is weaned, that is until about its third year.”12 This same characteristic is, or was, true of most American cultures and, coupled with the wide use of contraception, is undoubtedly one of the reasons America was not overpopulated until recently.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 111 | Location 1700-1701 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:37:15 PM

The Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and other groups with authoritarian background did not create “free” societies in Siberia or the Americas even when population was sparse.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 112 | Location 1706-1707 | Added on Thursday, March 14, 2019 11:37:49 PM

I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls .
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- Your Highlight on page 147 | Location 2247-2249 | Added on Friday, March 15, 2019 11:43:55 PM

Mary is very much like a mother within a patriarchal family. She can listen to pleas and she can, in turn, ask favors from the dominating male, but she possesses no independent power. Only the male
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 147 | Location 2247-2249 | Added on Friday, March 15, 2019 11:43:59 PM

Mary is very much like a mother within a patriarchal family. She can listen to pleas and she can, in turn, ask favors from the dominating male, but she possesses no independent power. Only the male deity possesses the ultimate power to act.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 163 | Location 2488-2490 | Added on Saturday, March 16, 2019 11:15:35 PM

The big Catholic “Tipi” cathedral and the huge, ornate, Mormon temples are all monuments to material splendor and to religions which seem to purposely shut out the natural world—the earth, the plants, the sun, the cold, the heat, yes and even the flies and ants, which are, to the Indian, all sacred (wakan).
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 163 | Location 2497-2501 | Added on Saturday, March 16, 2019 11:16:56 PM

it may be that the development of massive, enclosed temples and churches of whatever size, in Asia and Europe, correlates very well with the rise of the wétiko sickness. Why? Perhaps because the temple or cathedral clearly serves to separate the sacred from the profane, the religious from the secular, the realm of worship from the realm of work, money-making, and killing. The wétikos want people to box up their religion in buildings, where it can be isolated from the rest of life.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 168 | Location 2565-2572 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:56:19 PM

If the wétiko psychosis is to be overcome, and if we are to be cured of the disease, the answer lies in what I call religion, which is following the “good, red road” or the “pollen path” for all the days of our lives. This is not to say that a person has to become an Indian, or follow Native American ways. No, because when we pull away the wétiko sickness from our eyes and look at things in honesty and humility, we find that the teachings of the great medicine men, the great holy men, of the world are actually similar—they point in the same direction. They may not be identical, but that is okay, because they all provide us with examples only. I don’t believe they ever meant for us to become robots, duplicating every act of their lives, or phonographs, repeating every word of their prayers, or imbeciles, refusing to use the miracle of our own minds, or clods, failing to dream our own dreams, or blobs, never seeking our own visions. Other people’s visions are their own, not ours, and it is wrong to use them as an excuse for not finding our own if we can.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 170 | Location 2601-2602 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:59:51 PM

forsaking, release, non-attachment. A very specific part of Gotama’s teachings had
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 170 | Location 2607-2608 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:00:06 PM

Gotama insisted that each person had to follow his own path, because enlightenment is a personal experience, unique for each individual.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 174 | Location 2663-2664 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:06:37 PM

I MET A medicine man, one of my uncles. “Tell me about the Great Spirit,” I asked him. “He is not like a human being, like the White God. He is a power. That power could be in a cup of coffee. The Great Spirit is no old man with a beard.”
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2770-2772 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:18:40 PM

It is not the concrete, material results of one’s life that are important, for all such things can be destroyed, lost, or dissipated rapidly. It is rather the quality of our acts, of our struggle, of our motives, of our love, of our perseverance which are truly significant. As Black Elk said, “the power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2770-2772 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:18:50 PM

It is not the concrete, material results of one’s life that are important, for all such things can be destroyed, lost, or dissipated rapidly. It is rather the quality of our acts, of our struggle, of our motives, of our love, of our perseverance which are truly significant. As Black Elk said, “the power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2770-2772 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:18:58 PM

It is not the concrete, material results of one’s life that are important, for all such things can be destroyed, lost, or dissipated rapidly. It is rather the quality of our acts, of our struggle, of our motives, of our love, of our perseverance which are truly significant. As Black Elk said, “the power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.”
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 182 | Location 2780-2782 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:20:03 PM

Peace . . . comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells Wakan-tanka, and that this center is everywhere, it is within each of us.
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 182 | Location 2789-2793 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:21:37 PM

I have noticed in my life that all men have a liking for some special animal, tree, plant, or spot of earth. If men would pay more attention to these preferences and seek what is best to do in order to make themselves worthy of that toward which they are so attracted, they might have dreams which would purify their lives. Let a man decide upon his favorite animal and make a study of it, learning its innocent ways. Let him learn to understand its sounds and motions. The animals want to communicate with man, but Wakan tanka [the Great Spirit] does not intend they shall do so directly—man must do the greater part in securing an understanding.
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- Your Highlight on page 186 | Location 2845-2855 | Added on Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:28:50 PM

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- Your Highlight on page 186 | Location 2845-2854 | Added on Monday, March 18, 2019 6:54:01 PM

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- Your Highlight on page 186 | Location 2845-2854 | Added on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:16:52 AM

The Old Ones say outward is inward to the heart and inward is outward to the center because for us there are no absolute boundaries no borders no environments no outside no inside no dualisms no single body no non-body We don’t stop at our eyes We don’t begin at our skin We don’t end at our smell We don’t start at our sounds I can lose my legs and go on living I can lose my eyes and go on living I can lose my ears and go on living I can lose my hair my nose my hands my arms and go on living but if I lose the water I die If I lose the air I die If I lose the Sun I die If I lose the plants and animals I die For all of these things are more a part of me more essential to my being than is that which I call “my body.” A mountain for seeking visions, An ocean for getting dreams, A lake of mirrors to give us names, Sacred Circles arounding us.
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Only Approved Indians: Stories (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 329 | Location 5039-5041 | Added on Friday, March 22, 2019 9:09:17 PM

"We came to see that white politics picks men to be the leader who are of a single type, men who love themselves so much that they cannot understand anything else. So we just gave up on him, except that he did get to listen to our talks on the radio we let him have.
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Only Approved Indians: Stories (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 345 | Location 5288-5288 | Added on Friday, March 22, 2019 9:17:28 PM

Man is just an ordinary; weak, vain man. He has done some evil things,
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Only Approved Indians: Stories (Jack D. Forbes)
- Your Highlight on page 415 | Location 6351-6351 | Added on Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:21:48 PM

blacks speaking 'Nederland' and Talkie-Talkie and Papermentoo or whatever it's called and some of 'em
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- Your Highlight on page 454 | Location 6959-6960 | Added on Saturday, March 23, 2019 8:39:23 PM

white and black youths gathered together in groups in the inner cities.
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The Dog Stars (Peter Heller)
- Your Highlight on page 176 | Location 2695-2702 | Added on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:28:43 PM

This was our ritual while we waited for our lives to truly begin and I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don’t know why. Is it because we are so unsure, so tentative and waiting? Like it needs that much room, that much space to expand. The not knowing anything really, the hoping, the aching transience: This is not real, not really, and so we let it alone, let it unfold lightly. Those times that can fly. That’s the way it seems now looking back. Like those pleasantly exhausted bike rides up the side of a country highway on a warm evening. To a bridge. To a little rootsnaked trail through heavy maples. Where we padded barefoot upstream to a swimming hole. Even getting poison ivy so badly one weekend I missed two days of work. Seems from here that that was the sweetest time ever vouchsafed to two people. Ever. On earth. While we waited for him to finish his degree, for me to have a child, to do the real work of living.
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The Dog Stars (Peter Heller)
- Your Bookmark on page 257 | Location 3985 | Added on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:42:50 PM


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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 14 | Location 210-211 | Added on Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:45:27 PM

By 1900, the South's judicial system had been wholly reconfigured to make one of its primary purposes the coercion of African Americans to comply with the social customs and labor demands of whites.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 243-245 | Added on Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:48:36 PM

Unlike the victims of the Jewish Holocaust, who were on the whole literate, comparatively wealthy, and positioned to record for history the horror that enveloped them, Cottenham and his peers had virtually no capacity to preserve their memories or document their destruction.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 246-248 | Added on Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:49:00 PM

There is no chronicle of girlfriends, hopes, or favorite songs of the dead in a Pratt Mines burial field. The entombed there are utterly mute, the fact of their existence as fragile as a scent in wind.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 27 | Location 411-412 | Added on Saturday, March 30, 2019 7:59:00 PM

As the war escalated, maintaining production required an ever increasing number of slaves. Agents from major factories, Brierfield Iron, and the Shelby Iron Works, scoured the countryside to buy or lease African Americans.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 40 | Location 610-611 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 2:09:39 PM

Contrasted against that circumscribed existence, the extraordinary events in the aftermath of emancipation—no matter the deprivation or arduousness—must have been bathed in a glow of wonder and astonishment.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 40 | Location 612-613 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 2:09:51 PM

It was slaves who had created the Cottingham plantation and civilized the Cahaba valley and all of rugged central Alabama. Bibb County was a place where there were no flat places.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 41 | Location 626-627 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 2:11:42 PM

In the early years of the Cottingham farm, Cherokee and Creek Indians still controlled the western bank of the Cahaba's sister stream, the Coosa River. Choctaw territory extended to within fifty miles of the plantation.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 43 | Location 655-659 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 2:16:24 PM

On creeks surrounding the Cottingham farm, small forges were built in the 1830s, early precursors to the massive steel and iron industry that would come to dominate Alabama by the end of the century. In 1850, at a location a few miles from the Cot-tinghams’, a massive boiler-driven sawmill began operation, pumping from the still virgin forests a fantastic stream of sawn planks and timbers. More ominously, Bibb Steam Mill Company also introduced to the county the ruthless form of industrial slavery that would become so important as the Civil War loomed.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 714-717 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:03:19 PM

Gorgas, like Elisha Cottingham and so many other whites bewildered by both the ramifications of black emancipation and the continuing venality of renegade whites, was disconsolate. The South they first dreamed of making an independent republic grounded in slavery—and then dreamed of rebuilding as a rival to the North—appeared irretrievably broken. "What an end to our great hopes!" he wrote in his diary. "Is it possible that we were wrong?"
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 48 | Location 736-737 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:05:06 PM

Redefined by war, grief, deprivation, death, and emancipation, America was faced with the challenge of repairing and reordering a collective household.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 755-756 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:06:52 PM

The breadth of white venom toward freed slaves—and the decades of venality that followed it—belied the wide spectrum of perspectives on slavery shared by white southerners before the war.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 760-763 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:07:44 PM

In the first decades of colonization in the 1600s, "slave" and "Negro" were not synonymous in the American colonies. Slaves were as likely to be Indians as Africans. Some early owners of black slaves were themselves black. Free Africans in Virginia were permitted to vote well into the 1700s. Many indentured white servants were coerced into extending their labor contracts until death—effectively making them light-skinned slaves. Dispelling that
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 51 | Location 770-773 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:08:47 PM

Still, vast swaths of the region, including the rock-strewn Appalachians stretching from northern Alabama, across Georgia, and up through the Carolinas and Virginia, contained virtually no slaves at all. Indeed, in some of those places, companies of men had gathered after secession, armed themselves, and marched north to join with the Union armies moving upon the South.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 51 | Location 776-778 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:09:39 PM

The 1860 census counted among four million blacks in the South more than 250,000 free African Americans in the slave states, more than fifty thousand of them in Virginia. In Louisiana, a handful of black freedmen owned dozens of slaves. In the intricately hued tapestry of New Orleans, more than three thousand free blacks owned slaves themselves.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 786-786 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:10:22 PM

The destruction of slavery in the Civil War didn't settle this contradiction.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 784-786 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:10:35 PM

A century later, this was the paradox of the post-Civil War South—recognition of freed slaves as full humans appeared to most white southerners not as an extension of liberty but as a violation of it, and as a challenge to the legitimacy of their definition of what it was to be white. The destruction of slavery in the Civil War didn't settle this contradiction.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 792-795 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:12:03 PM

The resistance to what should have been the obvious consequences of losing the Civil War—full emancipation of the slaves and shared political control between blacks and whites—was so virulent and effective that the tangible outcome of the military struggle between the North and the South remained uncertain even twenty-five years after the issuance of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 792-795 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:12:07 PM

The resistance to what should have been the obvious consequences of losing the Civil War—full emancipation of the slaves and shared political control between blacks and whites—was so virulent and effective that the tangible outcome of the military struggle between the North and the South remained uncertain even twenty-five years after the issuance of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 791-792 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:12:17 PM

The Civil War settled definitively the question of the South's continued existence as a part of the United States, but in 1865 there was no strategy for cleansing the South of the economic and intellectual addiction to slavery.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 53 | Location 801-802 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:12:52 PM

As the United States would learn many times in the ensuing 150 years, a military victor's intention to impose a new moral and political code on a conquered society was much easier to wish for than to attain.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 55 | Location 836-837 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:15:53 PM

The extraordinary value of organizing a gang of slave men to quickly accomplish an arduous manual task—such as enlarging a mine and extracting its contents, or constructing railroads through the most inhospitable frontier regions—became obvious during the manpower shortages of wartime.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 55 | Location 841-843 | Added on Monday, April 1, 2019 9:16:29 PM

But in the setting of industrial slavery—where only strong young males and a tiny number of female "washerwomen" and cooks were acquired, and no semblance of family interaction was possible—slaves were assets to be expended like mules and equipment.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 275-275 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:31:18 PM

January 1868 hardly seemed an auspicious time to marry. It was raw, cold, and hungry.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 19 | Location 281-283 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:32:16 PM

Not three years later, the valley remained a twisted ruin. Fallow fields. Burned barns. Machinery rusting at the bottoms of wells. Horses and mules dead or lost. The people, black and white, braced for a hard, anxious winter.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 23 | Location 338-339 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:35:50 PM

They were creatures bought or bred for the production of wealth.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 389-390 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:39:19 PM

Slave owners willing to transport their black workers to the new mining regions of Alabama and dig coal could avoid conscription into the southern armies.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 35 | Location 523-526 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:42:08 PM

The loss of slaves left white farm families such as the Cottinghams, and even more so those on expansive plantations with scores or hundreds of slaves, not just financially but intellectually bereft. The slaves were the true experts in the tasks of cotton production on most farms; in many cases it was slaves who directed the gangs of other slaves in their daily work.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 35 | Location 537-537 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:42:26 PM

Some white plantation owners attempted to coerce their former slaves into signing "lifetime contracts" to work on the farms.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 714-717 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:51:28 PM

Gorgas, like Elisha Cottingham and so many other whites bewildered by both the ramifications of black emancipation and the continuing venality of renegade whites, was disconsolate. The South they first dreamed of making an independent republic grounded in slavery—and then dreamed of rebuilding as a rival to the North—appeared irretrievably broken. "What an end to our great hopes!" he wrote in his diary. "Is it possible that we were wrong?"
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 23 | Location 338-339 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 8:05:24 PM

They were creatures bought or bred for the production of wealth.
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The Farfarers (Farley Mowat)
- Your Highlight on page 54 | Location 813-816 | Added on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 9:33:14 PM

The life of mountain herdsmen was rigorously demanding. Most existing hillmen, of whom the Kurds and Iranian-Afghani are good examples, are tough, wiry, immensely enduring people of small-to-middle stature, with sharp features, black hair and eyes, and dark complexions. They are characterized by indomitable courage, fierce loyalties, and passionate allegiance to clan and country. They are almost certainly of Alban ancestry.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 389-390 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:34:21 AM

Slave owners willing to transport their black workers to the new mining regions of Alabama and dig coal could avoid conscription into the southern armies.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 739-740 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:55:16 AM

No more was he one of the "Cottingham niggers."
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 739-740 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:55:26 AM

It was his name on the piece of paper, "Henry Cot-tinham." No more was he one of the "Cottingham niggers."
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 742-743 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:56:33 AM

Henry Cottinham was a man, with a name, spelled just the way he had always said it. Freedom was an open field, a strong wife, and time to make his mark.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 745-746 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:59:53 AM

Surely, that was freedom.
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The Patch (John McPhee)
- Your Highlight on page 191 | Location 2921-2922 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 9:24:59 PM

He was mindful of his presence between writer and reader, and he wished to remain invisible while representing each.
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The Land of Little Rain (Mary Hunter Austin)
- Your Highlight on page 33 | Location 490-491 | Added on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 9:39:06 PM

Young Shoshones are like young quail, knowing without teaching about feeding and hiding, and learning what civilized children never learn, to be still and to keep on being still, at the first hint of danger or strangeness.
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The Farfarers (Farley Mowat)
- Your Highlight on page 83 | Location 1270-1275 | Added on Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:13:52 PM

Chief amongst the leaders was a man the Romans called Calgacus, who, according to Tacitus, treated his troops to the following resounding indictment of Rome and, indeed, of all empires in all time . . . including our own. The terrible Romans from whose oppression escape is vainly sought through obedience and submission [are] robbers of the world. Having by universal plundering exhausted the land, they even rob the sea. If their enemy be rich, they are rapacious. If poor, they lust for dominion over him. Neither east nor west has been able to satisfy them. They justify robbery, slaughter, and plunder with the lying name of Empire. They make a desolation, then call it peace.
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 21 | Location 317-318 | Added on Monday, April 8, 2019 9:04:08 PM

Religion requires a specially cultivated deafness to contradiction which I'm too sinful to learn.
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 97 | Location 1478-1485 | Added on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 8:45:50 PM

It's not true to say there's only one first time. My first was Caron who understood what game the grown-ups played, and we played it the witless childhood way, maybe better than most tumbling whelps because in a more-thanchildhood way we did honestly cherish each other as people. But you may come to the first time with another as though the past were swept aside and you the same as virgin, entering a garden so new that all flowers taken in the past seem to belong to young years, smaller passions. I don't suppose this could be true for the men who are driven in a mischancy race from one woman to the next, never staying long enough with one to learn anything except that she has--what a surprise!--the same pattern of organs as the last. Nor could it be true of the female collectors of scalps. But it's true for anyone like myself to whom women are people, and is probably true for a woman who can see a bedmate is a friend and a person, not just an enemy or a child substitute or a phallus with legs.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 80 | Location 1217-1218 | Added on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:13:27 PM

But as the state turned ever larger blocs of African Americans over to private companies, an organized market for prisoners began to evolve.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 80 | Location 1217-1218 | Added on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:13:41 PM

But as the state turned ever larger blocs of African Americans over to private companies, an organized market for prisoners began to evolve.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 80 | Location 1217-1218 | Added on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:13:44 PM

But as the state turned ever larger blocs of African Americans over to private companies, an organized market for prisoners began to evolve.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 80 | Location 1218-1220 | Added on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:13:55 PM

Soon, labor agents for the mining and timber companies were scouring the countryside to make arrangements for acquiring able-bodied black laborers—just as John Tillman had done to locate slaves for the Shelby Iron Works during the war, just as Rev. Starr's son was doing when Scip Cottinham was leased to the Brierfield furnaces in the 1860s.
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II (Douglas A. Blackmon)
- Your Highlight on page 80 | Location 1221-1223 | Added on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:14:13 PM

The key distinction, however, between the sheriff and the old slave masters was that since these African Americans were not his or anyone else's permanent property, he had no reason for concern about how they were treated by their new keepers or whether they survived at all.
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 256 | Location 3917-3918 | Added on Friday, April 12, 2019 10:11:34 PM

you think he didn't, Davy? Nay, I sometimes wonder if loners aren't the only ones who do."
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 256 | Location 3914-3918 | Added on Friday, April 12, 2019 10:11:40 PM

"Be _you_," Mam Laura asked me, "a loner by trade?" "Likely I must be," I said, "the way when my Da makes that remark it rings a bell in me. But I like people." "So does your Da," Mam Laura said--"did you think he didn't, Davy? Nay, I sometimes wonder if loners aren't the only ones who do."
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 267 | Location 4094-4098 | Added on Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:24:17 PM

What is it, this very certain destiny that overtakes all our visions, our most reasoned plans equally with our fantastic dreams? Maybe whenever we think of the future, as we must if we're to be human at all, the act is bound to include a something-too-much, as if with all due human absurdity we were expecting chance to alter its course at the impact of our noise. A boy imagined the great outriggers, the fine thirty-tonners bound east by the northern route; his mind saw their canvas tall, mighty, luminous in a golden haze.
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 267 | Location 4094-4097 | Added on Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:24:32 PM

What is it, this very certain destiny that overtakes all our visions, our most reasoned plans equally with our fantastic dreams? Maybe whenever we think of the future, as we must if we're to be human at all, the act is bound to include a something-too-much, as if with all due human absurdity we were expecting chance to
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 267 | Location 4094-4097 | Added on Sunday, April 14, 2019 10:24:38 PM

What is it, this very certain destiny that overtakes all our visions, our most reasoned plans equally with our fantastic dreams? Maybe whenever we think of the future, as we must if we're to be human at all, the act is bound to include a something-too-much, as if with all due human absurdity we were expecting chance to alter its course at the impact of our noise.
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Davy (Edgar Pangborn)
- Your Highlight on page 318 | Location 4863-4866 | Added on Monday, April 15, 2019 11:35:57 PM

The explorer's task has, I'd say, very little of the splendor a boy's imagination gives it. I dreamed a multitude of fancies lying in the sun before my cave on North Mountain; but Captain Barr and I are now much more decently concerned with survival biscuits and pemmican and sauerkraut, and trying to rebuild the head of the Morning Star a mite further aft if you'll excuse the expression.
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 563-565 | Added on Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:38:13 PM

Yes, but the bank is only made of men. No, you're wrong there- quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 560-562 | Added on Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:38:30 PM

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours- being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Your Highlight on page 43 | Location 653-654 | Added on Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:47:35 PM

"I got to figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change."
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The Farfarers (Farley Mowat)
- Your Highlight on page 149 | Location 2273-2279 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:26:02 PM

First the blubber had to be diced into small pieces, then slowly heated “until the ile runs out o’ the gristle.” He stressed that the pot must not be allowed to boil or “‘twill be ruined, certainly.” When all the oil was floating free, the gristle was strained out. The pot was then pushed to the back of the stove and allowed to simmer until the contents became “thick as treacle.” Stored in an outhouse over a period of several months, it would eventually “cure” into a black substance too thick to spoon, though not quite thick enough to cut with a knife, in which form it would keep indefinitely. I carefully noted all this in my journal, together with our host’s final remarks: “Yiss, bye, I sloshes dat stuff on me boots, me house, me canoes, and me old Peterhead boat. And nary a drap o’ water’ll get into ary one of they!”
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The Farfarers (Farley Mowat)
- Your Highlight on page 149 | Location 2279-2280 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:26:24 PM

I can testify to the effectiveness of seal tar, and also to its redolence, which can be breathtaking and would make it a difficult product to market in our fastidious era.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 78-78 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 10:18:39 PM

tragedy has taken place on our land, and even though it did not take place on our watch, we are its inheritors, and the earth remembers.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 59 | Location 894-895 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:08:42 PM

told him I didn’t know. “I think
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 59 | Location 893-897 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:08:51 PM

tell you, Nerburn, being an Indian isn’t easy. For a lot of years America just wanted to destroy us. Now, all of a sudden, we’re the only group people are trying to get into. Why do you think this is?” I told him I didn’t know. “I think it’s because the white people know we had something that was real, that we lived the way the Creator meant people to live on this land. They want that. They know that the white people are messing up. If they say they are part Indian, it’s like being part of what we have.”
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 975-975 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:28:39 PM

“You don’t convince anyone by arguing. People make their decisions
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 975-975 | Added on Saturday, April 20, 2019 11:28:44 PM

“You don’t convince anyone by arguing. People make their decisions in their heart. Talk doesn’t touch my heart.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 112 | Location 1714-1718 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:46:42 AM

We know that white people have an endless hunger. They want to consume everything and make it part of them. Even if they don’t own it physically, they want to own it spiritually. That is what is happening with the Indian, now. The white people want to own us spiritually. You want to swallow us so you can say you are us. This is something new. Before you wanted to make us you. But now you are unhappy with who you are, so you want to make you into us. You want our ceremonies and our ways so you can say you are spiritual. You are trying to become white Indians.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 165 | Location 2524-2525 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:00:23 PM

“You want to know how to be like Indians? Live close to the earth. Get rid of some of your things. Help each other. Talk to the Creator. Be quiet more. Listen to the earth instead of building things on it all the time.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 178 | Location 2715-2718 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:11:50 PM

“There are leaders and there are rulers. We Indians are used to leaders. When our leaders don’t lead, we walk away from them. When they lead well, we stay with them. “White people never understood this. Your system makes people rulers by law, even if they are not leaders. We have had to accept your way, because you made us Indians make constitutions and form governments. But we don’t like it and we don’t think it is right.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 181 | Location 2769-2771 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:23:37 PM

“That is not the way it should be. Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 187 | Location 2853-2854 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:31:12 PM

Watching him was like watching a night sea swirl and change. His deep anger would rise, then subside, then emerge again somewhere else, only to be washed over by a great sorrow.
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Neither Wolf nor Dog (Kent Nerburn)
- Your Highlight on page 222 | Location 3403-3405 | Added on Sunday, April 21, 2019 6:38:32 PM

“Things are different for us. We know who we are. We are mothers. We are the bearers of our race. It gives us status to do other things. We are honored for what we are. If our men are treating us poorly, it is because they are shamed. Why should we want to set ourselves against them and call that liberation? Until they are free in their hearts again, none of us Indian people will be free.”
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