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Book description"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us
unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves now
to live, really live...to love the journey, not the destination."
In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to "get a life"--to live
deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. "Knowledge of our own mortality is
the greatest gift God ever gives us," Quindlen writes, "because unless you k...
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Review:In The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, Thomas Disch does for science fiction what he did for poetry in The Castle of Indolence. First, he treats it not
as a playground for idle dreamers, but as a branch of serious literature with significant cultural impact. Second, he brings the perspective of a
seasoned practitioner to bear in separating the wheat from the chaff.
For example, if you ever wanted to know why L. Ron Hubbard managed to start a cult but Philip K. Dick didn't, Disch is your man. Beginning with
Edgar Allan Poe, Disch elaborates a vision of science fiction as one of the twentieth century's most influential manifestat...
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