TootTropiques

TootTropiques , 1 day ago to bookstodon group

"They do say that watching pigs cures melancholy. It never cured mine, though."

--Sarah Waters

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TootTropiques , 17 days ago to bookstodon group

"Maybe all this is just what follows when you keep putting it about that cruelty is a virtue."

-- Martin Amis

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TootTropiques , 18 days ago to bookstodon group

"You can't have the fantasies and the reality. You can't have the best of both worlds."
"You've just blown a hole in the Liberal Liberal Party electoral platform."

--Len Deighton

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TootTropiques , 26 days ago to anthropology group

Indigenous forest guardian and defender of isolated peoples Beto Marubo sends a powerful message to elite academic community during recent conference at Yale University. Shown here with journalist Scott Wallace and yrs truly.

https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/daniel-camargos/o-recado-de-beto-marubo-para-a-elite-intelectual-dos-eua/

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TootTropiques , 26 days ago to bookstodon group

"We tend to forget that there are people who are simply after money and power, and they have no psychological complications at all."

--Len Deighton, The IPCRESS File

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TootTropiques , 27 days ago to bookstodon group

"The huge green olives rolled like eyes"

--Len Deighton's unparalleled description of a martini

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TootTropiques , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

"He had the advantage of both a good brain, and a family rich enough to save him using it."

--Len Deighton

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TootTropiques , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

A bit surprised but very much honored -- OK I'll admit it, totally stoked! -- to see an excerpt from my review @nybooks (alongside Laura Rival's @ TLS) as the back cover blurb for the 2023 paperback edition to Falling Sky by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert

You can read the full review at https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/06/davi-kopenawa-voice-shaman/?insrc=toc

or an extended excerpt on my blog

https://ethnoground.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-kopenawa-galaxy-review-of-falling.html

Congratulations to Davi and Bruce for the recent Cannes debut of the film The Fall of Heaven based on this groundbreaking book.

https://www.socioambiental.org/en/socio-environmental-news/film-fall-from-the-sky-presents-yanomami-cosmology-with-festival-premiere

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TootTropiques , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."

--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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