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This is a book of brief paragraphs and aphorisms. It can be picked up and read anywhere and give you a thought you've not had before. In fact, many of the ideas will challenge your thinking. Weil was a wild character and this book is posthumous, but don't let that stop you from enjoying the stunning sentences. Examples:
Human life is impossible. But it is only affliction which makes us feel this.
To love truth means to endure the void and, as a result, to accept death. Truth is on the side of death.
We are drawn to a thing because we believe it is good. We end by being chained to it because it has become necessary.
Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Interim is a "campus" novel, which means it takes place on a college campus. The main character is an English professor who takes over as an assistant dean in his college. The book is serious and absurd about what happens in universities today: administrators push paper and come up with quasi-corporate speak and ideas to "run" their business and keep their "customers" (students and their parents) happy. The problem is, the customers don't really know what they want besides a good-paying job and the administrators don't know what they are doing. The faculty, who are the centered of the system, get the shaft.
What if, one shining summer day, a friend-in-need asks you to take a job you don’t want, aren’t qualified for, and will just plain hate? If you’re Rob Roy, Professor of English at STATE University, and your sweet son—gone sullen under his headphones—is about to incur some hefty college costs, you say fine, dammit, and become Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities, Interim.
It turns out Rob can do some good, if he can head off the nefarious plans of unctuous archrival, Professor Steve Klutz, who’s got something cooking with STATE’s online education. Along the way, though, he’ll need to…
