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Old 11-06-2012, 11:18 AM   #1902
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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73 View Post
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
Just read about it and watched the movie trailer....may be in my kindle before the end of the day.
We'll be discussing that one in the MobileRead Book Club beginning on the 20th of this month if you're interested, Kenny. It really is quite good, so far. Not only is the author a bona fide wordsmith, but he lays one hell of a foundation for his tale.
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