TootTropiques

TootTropiques, 6 days ago to bookstodon

"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, 10 days ago to bookstodon

"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, 17 days ago to bookstodon

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, 30 days ago to bookstodon

"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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TootTropiques, 1 month ago to brazil

Valuable 1823 edition of Johann von Spix's “Simiarum et vespertilionum Brasiliensium species novae” was just recovered in London 16 years after being stolen from the Goeldi Museum's rare books collection. This important work is famous for its descriptions and drawings of the monkeys of Brazil as well as other plants and animals then considered new to science.

@bookstodon #Brazil #arttheft

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/05/01/pf-recupera-em-londres-livro-de-1823-furtado-de-museu-no-para-ha-16-anos.ghtml

TootTropiques, 1 month ago to bookstodon

"So, is this a story of love, or war?"... "What's the difference?"
--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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TootTropiques, 1 month ago to brazil

International police are finally tracking down the thieves who stole a cache of rare books worth nearly $1 million from the Goeldi Museum in Brazil in 2008, and returning these precious historical works to the museum.

#Brazil #Amazonia #arttheft @bookstodon

https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/noticia/2024/04/28/pf-caca-ladroes-de-livros-raros-avaliados-em-r-4-milhoes-em-londres-ny-e-buenos-aires.ghtml

TootTropiques, 1 month ago to bookstodon

"A writer is never trustworthy."

--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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TootTropiques, 1 month ago to bookstodon

"Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places... Balance itself is the good."

--Haruki #Murakami #1q84

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TootTropiques, 1 month ago to Christianity

"A Greek doesn't need to be told that tragedy runs in families."
--Ian Caldwell

@bookstodon #vatican #Christianity #ShroudOfTurin

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to bookstodon

"The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish..."

#Murakami @bookstodon

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TootTropiques, 2 months ago to psychology

"The dead don't stop haunting you just because you move on."

-- Dirk Wittenborn, 'Pharmakon'

@bookstodon #psychology #psychedelics

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to bookstodon

"All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well."

--Haruki Murakami

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TootTropiques, 2 months ago to Pharmacology

"'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'."
"Like now, you mean?"
"Like always."

--Dirk Wittenborn, Pharmakon

@bookstodon #pharmacology #psychiatry

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to AncientHistory

An archeologist cataloging the contents of an ancient trash pit from Utrecht, Holland, discovered a 2000 year-old stash of hallucinogenic henbane seeds, carefully stored in a hollowed-out animal bone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/science/archaeology-hallucinogens-henbane.html

#archeology #archeozoologie #psychedelics #hallucinogen #shamanism @ethnobiology #solanaceae

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to ethnobiology

Yes, we have (almost) no bananas!

At least here in Brazil you can find 4 or 5 varieties in local markets and many more in indigenous gardens, all more tasty than bland mealy Chiquita

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/1000-varieties-banana-lack-of-diversity-extinction

@ethnobiology #fruits #biodiversity

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to writing

"No matter what you have written, it can be made better."

--Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

@bookstodon #writing #murakami

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to writing

"Novelists are like certain kinds of fish: if they don't keep swimming, they die."

--Haruki Murakami

@bookstodon #writing

TootTropiques, 2 months ago to houseofleaves

"Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say."
--Mark Z. Danielewski #houseofleaves
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