## .kobo/google_drive/In the House of Rosewood Manuscript - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If I cough, that will signal that the coast is clear.” - **Note:** None - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 19:26:11 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Just as Ezekiel reached out and grabbed the knob, he heard two very small, but clear, coughs. _ Brilliant, _ he thought. He pulled his hand away and waited, hoping that whoever intruded would depart swiftly._ - **Note:** None - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 19:26:40 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Chapter Eleven - **Note:** None - **Created On:** 08/25/2024 at 20:30:26 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Chapter Twelve - **Note:** - **Created On:** 09/20/2024 at 20:45:02 --- ## Bevan, Robert - Critical Failures IV_ The Phantom Pinas - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Chapter 1 - **Note:** Started 2024-07-14 - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 20:29:59 --- ## Bevan, Robert - Critical Failures V - V is for Five - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Chapter 1 _   _ - **Note:** Started 2024-08-23 - **Created On:** 08/23/2024 at 16:56:43 --- ## Bockoven, Mike - FantasticLand - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** but in the end, what have we learned? That violence lurks in all of us? That we are easily led by those with less than the purest of intentions? - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/14/2024 at 23:38:12 --- ## Datlow, Ellen - Christmas and Other Horrors_ A Winter Solstice Anthology - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Schnabelperchten - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 21:56:40 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** THE ONES HE TAKES - **Note:** Sometimes Santa doesn't leave gifts. Sometimes he recruits unwilling helpers. - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 21:57:27 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** HIS CASTLE - **Note:** Mari Lwyd - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 21:59:18 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** RETURN TO BEAR CREEK LODGE - **Note:** Weird Snake Monster - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 22:00:56 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** THE GHOST OF CHRISTMASES PAST - **Note:** After being given an ultimtum from Gryla, Laura joins the dark side of Christmas - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 22:04:25 --- ## Dickens, Charles - Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, A - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** It was a strange figure—like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It wore a tunic of the purest white; and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm. - **Note:** The Ghost of Christmas Past - **Created On:** 12/04/2024 at 01:14:05 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/04/2024 at 01:17:11 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded. - **Note:** The Ghost of Christmas Future - **Created On:** 12/04/2024 at 01:15:23 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door. - **Note:** The Ghost of Christmas Present - **Created On:** 12/04/2024 at 01:13:03 --- ## Doctorow, Cory - Craphound - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** since we share the_superstition that you always buy food from old ladies and little_kids, as a sacrifice to the crap-gods - **Note:** - **Created On:** 01/08/2025 at 00:46:12 --- ## Doctorow, Cory - Red Team Blues_ A Martin Hench Novel - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** None - **Note:** Started 2025-01-19 - **Created On:** 01/19/2025 at 19:39:41 --- ## Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The standard prescription for weight loss is “Eat Less, Move More.” It sounds perfectly reasonable. But why doesn’t it work? - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/30/2024 at 22:07:48 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** What causes alcoholism? The proximate cause is “drinking too much alcohol”—which is undeniably true, but not particularly useful. The question and the cause here are one and the same, since alcoholism means “drinking too much alcohol.” Treatment advice directed against the proximate cause—“Stop drinking so much alcohol”—is not useful. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/30/2024 at 22:10:11 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** We choose to eat chips instead of broccoli. We choose to watch TV instead of exercise. Through this reasoning, obesity is transformed from a disease that needs to be investigated and understood into a personal failing, a character defect - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/30/2024 at 22:14:59 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The solution adopted by most nutrition experts was to suggest that carbohydrates were no longer fattening. Instead, calories were fattening. Without evidence or historical precedent, it was arbitrarily decided that excess calories caused weight gain, not specific foods. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/30/2024 at 22:23:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Dietary fat was thought to increase the amount of cholesterol, a fatty substance that is thought to contribute to heart disease, in the blood. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/30/2024 at 22:24:53 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, now updated every five years, spawned the infamous food pyramid in all its counterfactual glory. The foods that formed the base of the pyramid—the foods we should eat every single day—were breads, pastas and potatoes. - **Note:** 1980 - **Created On:** 12/30/2024 at 22:28:12 --- ## Gerrold, David - Alternate Gerrolds - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** if Santa Claus is really another expression of God, then there has to be an equally powerful expression of the Devil too. There has to be a balance.”_“Satan Claus. ...” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 01:58:25 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Satan Claus knows if you’ve been bad or good—if you’ve been bad in any way, he comes and takes a little more joy out of your life, makes it harder for you to want to be good. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 02:01:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** We can’t create Satan Claus—because he already exists. He came into being when Santa Claus was created. A thing automatically creates its opposite, just by its very existence. You know that. The stronger Santa Claus gets, the stronger Satan Claus must become in opposition. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 02:02:36 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** —shouted their names as he whipped them, ‘On, damn you, on! You children of war! On Pustule and Canker and Sickness and Gore! On Monster and Seizure and Bastard and Whore. Drive on through the darkness! Break through and roar! - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 23:02:40 --- ## Golden, Christopher - Hark_ The Herald Angels Scream - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** A little boy stood in front of me. Every time he fidgeted, a cloud of dirt came off his clothes. Poor little orphan. He held a pair of shoes. - **Note:** Good old Jeff Strand taking "The Christmas Shoes" to a glurgy, horrific extreme. - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:30:47 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** I hate to end this on a cynical note, but if you’re ever doing some last-minute shopping and a dirty little ragamuffin kid asks you for shoe money, kick him in the face and run. Trust me. Good deeds just aren’t worth it. - **Note:** Much like any Jeff Strand story, this one grew on me after a year. A fitting tribute to that fucking song. - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:41:25 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “Give us food. Give us wine. Then our song shall be thine.” - **Note:** Mummers! - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:47:12 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** CHRISTMAS IN BARCELONA - **Note:** Toys that come to life on Xmas. Don't pick the wrong one... - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:50:25 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Snegurochka—the Snow Maiden - **Note:** If you don't cherish your children, you'll lose them. - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:53:28 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** LOVE ME - **Note:** The worst Christmas present is a needy monster - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:54:53 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS - **Note:** Genpets - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 19:55:53 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** IT’S A WONDERFUL KNIFE - **Note:** A knife that appears for one minute on Xmas. - **Created On:** 12/01/2024 at 20:17:13 --- ## Harper, Faith G. - Unfuck Your Eating_ Using Science to Build a Better Relationship With Food, Health, and Body Image - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** None - **Note:** Started 2025-02-17 - **Created On:** 02/17/2025 at 18:53:36 --- ## Hartmann, Sadie - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You_re Murdered - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT is trying to kill us. We are the weakest link. Take away our technology and our weapons and what do we have? Nothing. Our teeth aren’t sharp, we don’t have claws, and most of us can’t outrun anything that has four legs. We can’t even hide. Nobody is naturally camouflaged, and we’re very noisy._ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:06:54 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Manderley is the blueprint for stories that ask the reader, “Is it the house or the people?” Is the Manderley estate haunted by the spirit of a woman refusing to let her husband move on, or are the people of Manderley possessed by the past, unwilling to let Rebecca go? - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:43:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Hill House is dangerous. The house is a supernatural entity that can, if it chooses to do so, take the life of anyone that enters it. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:43:43 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** DECEMBER PARK_BY RONALD MALFI (2014) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:44:59 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** THE BONE WEAVER’S ORCHARD_BY SARAH READ (2019) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:46:53 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity._—Stephen King, Pet Sematary - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:48:20 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Horror is cathartic and healing in ways that other genres can’t even come close to being. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:49:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS_BY IAIN REID (2016) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:49:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** BABY TEETH_BY ZOJE STAGE (2018) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:53:52 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** TENDER IS THE FLESH_BY AUGUSTINA BAZTERRICA (2017) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:55:42 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** THE LOOP_BY JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON (2020) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:56:27 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** RED HANDS_BY CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN (2020) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:56:49 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** THE RUINS_BY SCOTT SMITH (2006) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:57:42 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** THE TREES GREW BECAUSE I BLED THERE_BY ERIC LAROCCA (2023) - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:59:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** So, listen, I hate to tell you this, but reading a steady diet of horror is going to ruin you for other genres. You’ll be reading some fantasy novel, and you’re going to start thinking things like:_When is this going to get nasty?_I wish one of the characters would just get murdered already - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/23/2024 at 23:59:56 --- ## Holderness, Penn & Holderness, Kim - ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The easy things are sometimes the hardest things for us to do. We are great at working on things that are new, challenging, or of personal interest. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:10:30 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Many people don’t get diagnosed until college when the deadlines, independence, and pressure lead to a greater presentation of symptoms. - **Note:** Or marriage, with the responsibity of supporting a family. - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:27:47 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Wandering attention - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:39:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Difficulty completing tasks - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:39:44 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Distraction by new things. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:40:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Multitasking overload. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:40:27 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Appearance of ignoring others during conversations because your mind is elsewhere. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:40:49 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Impatience. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:41:04 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** How many did you check off? - **Note:** 6/15 - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 22:42:51 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** IT’S NOT THAT WE’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO ANYTHING; IT’S THAT WE’RE PAYING ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING_ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 23:04:57 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The ADHD brain is not terrible at paying attention. It’s terrible at choosing what to pay attention to. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 23:06:05 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** We just get bored easily. The moment the novelty wears off, or if something more interesting comes along, we abandon what we were originally focusing on and chase the new thing. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 23:08:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The feeling of boredom is physically uncomfortable. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/04/2024 at 23:08:46 --- ## Honey, Shiva - Devil_s Tome_ A Book of Modern Satanic Ritual, The - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** In this spirit, Satanism in general embraces the blasphemous, as we reject divine fiats and the notion of symbolic crimes. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/27/2024 at 02:27:37 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Introduction - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/27/2024 at 02:35:08 --- ## Jackson, Shirley - Witchcraft of Salem Village, The - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** NOTE - **Note:** Started 2024-09-22 - **Created On:** 09/22/2024 at 13:51:14 --- ## Katz, Jon - Geeks_ How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** None - **Note:** Started 2025-02-11 - **Created On:** 02/17/2025 at 21:30:33 --- ## King, Stephen - Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** It didn’t strike him as peculiar that, whereas the Henderson kid’s Kindle had been white, his was pink.Not at first. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/21/2024 at 15:41:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** No hollow gym sounds in the background this time; just the barbaric yawps of Don’s three sons, who sounded as though they might be dismantling the Allman residence board by board. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/21/2024 at 15:50:56 --- ## King, Stephen - Everything_s Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Would he begin by saying, “Ma’am, according to at least one source I’ve read recently, all that you love will be carried away”? - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:44:38 --- ## King, Stephen - Pet Sematary - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Content._Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/13/2024 at 20:10:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** It might be that there was less than a month of really good ones in any natural man’s life in the best of circumstances. It came to seem to Louis that God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/13/2024 at 20:10:56 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** You pass it like a stone, and that’s the end of it . . . unless there comes a campfire some night with friends when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:08:46 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “That goes for me, too,” Jud said. His eyes found Louis’s and held them. They were steady. He was in control again. His brief moment of confusion and fear had passed. “I owe you one, Louis.” - **Note:** This is why Judd takes Louis to the Micmac burying ground. - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:12:23 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Keep him alive, Ellie, if that’s what you want, he thought and kissed her. The shrinks would probably say it’s as unhealthy as hell, but I’m for it. Because I know the day will come—maybe as soon as this Friday—when you forget to carry the picture and I’ll see it lying on your bed in this empty room while you ride your bike around the driveway or walk in the field behind the house or go over to Kathy McGown’s house to make clothes with her Sew Perfect. Gage won’t be with you, and that’s when Gage drops off whatever Hot One Hundred there is that exists in little girls’ hearts and starts to become Something That happened in 1984. A blast from the past. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 10/13/2024 at 18:43:24 --- ## Kleinbaum, N. H. - Dead Poets Society - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “Tradition,” “Honor,” “Discipline,” and “Excellence,” - **Note:** Travesty, Horror, Decadence, Excrement! - **Created On:** 07/20/2024 at 02:30:36 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** CHAPTER 1 - **Note:** Started 2024-07-19 - **Created On:** 07/20/2024 at 02:36:57 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “I quote from Whitman:__     “O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,_     Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, …_     What good amid these, O me, O life?_     Answer_     That you are here—That life exists and identity,_     That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse!”__ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/27/2024 at 15:57:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Teach me to love? Go teach thyself more wit:_I chief professor am of it._The god of love, If such a thing there be,_May learn to love from me.”_ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/23/2024 at 17:03:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Come my friends,_     ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world...._     for my purpose holds_     To sail beyond the sunset … and though_     We are not now that strength which in old days_     Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;—_     One equal temper of heroic hearts,_     Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will_     To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/23/2024 at 17:05:39 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision._     I could not turn from their revel in derision._     THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK,_     CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK....” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/23/2024 at 17:06:31 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “If you’re sure about something,” he said as they slowly returned to their seats, “force yourself to think about it another way, even if you know it’s wrong or silly. When you read, don’t consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think._ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/23/2024 at 17:08:43 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Devotees may argue that one game or sport is inherently better than another,” he said, pacing. “For me, the most important thing in all sport is the way other human beings can push us to excel. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/25/2024 at 19:57:48 --- ## Lawson, Jenny - Furiously Happy - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** You know when you’re walking to the trash can at the zoo and you’re holding something important in one hand, and you have something you have to throw away in the other hand, - **Note:** This entire chapter is gold. - **Created On:** 07/13/2024 at 20:07:57 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I can’t think of another type of illness where the sufferer is made to feel guilty and question their self-care when their medications need to be changed. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:16:52 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn’t mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:17:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** like when I heard about “microdermabrasion,” which I suspect is Latin for “I want to pull off your skin and turn it into a jacket.” My dermatologist sent me an e-mail about it, saying something about how my new skin was suffocating underneath layers of my old, dead skin, and I suddenly felt like I was wearing a mask of dust mites and dirt. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:17:57 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Also that snake in the garden told me it doesn’t even do anything.” And God shook his head and muttered, “Jesus, that fucking snake is like TMZ.” And then Adam was like, “Who’s Jesus?” and God said, “No one yet. It’s just an idea I’m throwing around.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:19:20 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Sometimes being crazy is a demon. And sometimes the demon is me._And I visit quiet sidewalks and loud parties and dark movies, and a small demon looks out at the world with me. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it plays. Sometimes it laughs with me. Sometimes it tries to kill me. But it’s always with me. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:20:15 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** (Side note: I had writer’s block so I got very drunk and when I sobered up I found that I’d written an essay on parsley, wasabi, cream cheese, and soup. I assure you, I was just as bewildered as you, but I decided to leave it in because at this point drunk me writes much better than sober me. She is such an asshole.)_ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:21:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I wish someone had told me this simple but confusing truth: Even when everything’s going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can’t always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:21:57 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:22:43 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Whenever I go to wash my hands, if the automatic sink doesn’t work I immediately assume that I’ve died in the bathroom stall and that it’s my ghost trying to wash my hands.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:23:08 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “But seriously, it should be spelled ‘hampster.’ We’re all saying it that way anyway.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:23:31 --- ## Levy, Steven - Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Then someone like Marvin Minsky might happen along and say, “Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine.” Immediately, nothing in the world is as essential as making the proper interface between the machine and the robot arm, and putting the robot arm under your control, and figuring a way to create a system where the robot arm knows what the hell it is doing. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:20:03 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “The Right Thing,” Gosper would later explain, “very specifically meant the unique, correct, elegant solution . . . the thing that satisfied all the constraints at the same time, which everyone seemed to believe existed for most problems.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:26:23 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “What phase is Greenblatt in?” and someone who had seen him recently would say, “I think he’s in a night phase now, and should be in around nine or so.” Professors did not adjust to those phases so easily, and Greenblatt “zorched” his classes - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:27:41 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a “hack.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 23:38:12 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** it would be understood that, to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/17/2024 at 11:49:16 --- ## Lovecraft, H. P. - Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** In Lovecraft's fiction, the discovery of evidence of civilizations existing long before our own, glimpses of apocalyptic futures in which humanity as we know it no longer exists,_ and the presence of monstrous extraterrestrial races with powers that far outstrip those of humanity and that simply don't care about us one way or another - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 01:50:05 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Lovecraft everywhere associates non-European and mixed ethnicity with intellectual inferiority, physical deformity, and vice. Indeed, the French critic Michel_ Houellebecq makes the case that bigotry provides the motor force behind much of Lovecraft's greatest work. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 01:51:17 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Forbidden knowledge in Lovecraft's tales (often accessed through his invented book of occult lore, the Necronomicon) always concerns man's own inconsequentiality, and_ the recognition of this fact invariably leads to insanity. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/25/2024 at 01:52:35 --- ## Malfi, Ronald - Bone White - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** None - **Note:** Started 2025-01-05 - **Created On:** 01/05/2025 at 20:39:35 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “Not just some spirit, Mr. Gallo,” Drammell said. He wiggled a set of fingers at him, as if they were claws. “But the devil himself. ‘Bone white,’ they call it. When a man loses everything inside him that makes him human, and gets taken over by the devil. Possessed.” - **Note:** He said the name of the book! Roll credits. - **Created On:** 01/06/2025 at 23:15:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “What’s that thing in the trunk?” she asked. _Joseph Mallory offered her a sad and terrible smile. _“It’s me,” he said. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 01/06/2025 at 23:26:39 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** My daddy told me of a man who shot and killed his mirror-double, but when he went to collect the body, it was a dead sheep. - **Note:** Mallory had a dead sheep in a trunk in his shack that he said was him. 1-7 - **Created On:** 01/06/2025 at 23:20:12 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** None - **Note:** Finshed 2025-01-07 - **Created On:** 01/07/2025 at 21:22:42 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Joe Mallory - **Note:** Suspected killer. Confessed at start of book - **Created On:** 01/05/2025 at 23:49:19 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Val Drammell - **Note:** Valerie Drammell. Man w womans name. Safety officer in Dread's Hand - **Created On:** 01/05/2025 at 23:52:05 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Jill Ryerson’s - **Note:** Detective? Ryerson. Major Crimes in Fairbanks, AL? - **Created On:** 01/05/2025 at 23:54:27 --- ## Pirsig, Robert - Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** UNASSIMILATED. This contained new ideas that interrupted what he was doing. They came in on the spur of the moment while he was organizing the other slips or sailing or working on the boat or doing something else that didn’t want to be disturbed. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:56:24 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** PROGRAM slips were instructions for what to do with the rest of the slips. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:56:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** CRIT slips. These were for days when he woke up in a foul mood and could find nothing but fault everywhere. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:56:47 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** the TOUGH category. This contained slips that seemed to say something of importance but didn’t fit into any topic he could think of. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:56:59 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The final category was JUNK. These were slips that seemed of high value when he wrote them down but which now seemed awful. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:57:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** There’s an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that’s in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:57:43 --- ## Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Tappets? I should have known then what was coming._Two weeks later I paid their bill for 140 dollars, rode the cycle carefully at varying low speeds to wear it in and then after one thousand miles opened it up. At about seventy-five it seized again - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 14:59:41 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** As far as I know those handlebars are still loose. And I believe now that he was actually offended at the time. I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can! - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:00:46 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** He had the illusion the trouble was in the wire near the bulb because immediately upon toggling the switch the light went out. If the trouble had been in the switch, he felt, there would have been a lapse of time before the trouble showed up in the bulb. Phaedrus did not argue with this, but went across the street to the hardware store, bought a switch and in a few minutes had it installed. It worked immediately, of course, leaving DeWeese puzzled and frustrated. "How did you know the trouble was in the switch?'' he asked._"Because it worked intermittently when I jiggled the switch.''_"Well…couldn't it jiggle the wire?''_"No.'' Phaedrus' cocksure attitude angered DeWeese and he started to argue. "How do you know all that?'' he said._"It's obvious.''_"Well then, why didn't I see it?''_"You have to have some familiarity.''_"Then it's not obvious, is it?'' - **Note:** - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:03:54 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** But what had happened? The student, with no hard feelings on anybody's part, would have flunked himself out. Good! This is what should have happened. He wasn't there for a real education in the first place and had no real business there at all. - **Note:** Gradeless University - **Created On:** 08/15/2024 at 15:04:59 --- ## Poe, Edgar Allan - Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine; - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/15/2024 at 22:29:16 --- ## Rose, Jeneva - Home Is Where the Bodies Are - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Nothing brings people together better than death. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/06/2025 at 17:37:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Death reminds us that life isn’t infinite and that one day, our time will come too. We pause to listen to that reminder, to acknowledge it, to show it the respect it demands - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/06/2025 at 17:37:27 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** hoping the next call will be to gather, rather than to be gathered around. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/06/2025 at 17:37:35 --- ## Shvartsman, Alex - Funny Horror - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** None - **Note:** Started 2024-07-30 - **Created On:** 07/30/2024 at 12:26:21 --- ## Thoreau, Henry David - Walden, or, Life in the woods_ and, _On the duty of civil disobedience_ - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/19/2024 at 02:13:39 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/19/2024 at 02:14:24 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/19/2024 at 02:17:55 --- ## Upham, Charles Wentworth - Salem Witchcraft (Complete Edition)_ The Real History & Background of the Greatest Witch Hunt Trials in America - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** INTRODUCTION - **Note:** - **Created On:** 09/21/2024 at 22:03:14 --- ## Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?__Answer._That you are here—that life exists and identity,_That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/19/2024 at 13:35:25 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,_I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.__ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 07/19/2024 at 13:36:49 ---