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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    The first time Peter Spankoffski meets Hatchetfield’s resident homeless man, he’s six years old.

    No one’s ever said the man is dangerous, not really, but Peter’s smart, smart enough to know that if his mom and Teddy agree that he should stay away from someone, then he should listen. They never agree on anything.

    Maybe that’s why, when the strange man in the brown coat attacks a goat right in front of Pete’s eyes, it doesn’t shock him quite as much as it does the other kids at the petting zoo.

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    16 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    Johannes' bet with Satan is going relatively well. Horst isn't enjoying himself. Johannes is learning to juggle. These observations aren't related, exactly, but Horst spent eight years with nothing to do but think and it's difficult to stop himself now.

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    03 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    "Marius… went straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the Moniteur… all the memoirs, all the newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. The first time that he came across his father’s name in the bulletins of the grand army, he had a fever for a week."

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    06 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 97

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    hawkeye gets caught in a wave of hemorrhagic fever and does what he can not to stop his entire internal monologue from spilling out whenever he opens his mouth, and maybe learns to appreciate the little things instead of needing to singlehandedly stop the war all the time

     

    “‘Thanks, Major,’ he says, ‘I’m really doing fine. Just a hair’s breadth closer to death than I’d been…’ at which point he faints and collapses into Margaret’s arms. She bears his weight well, though after all he’s only a hundred and seventy pound fruitcake. In his last split second of consciousness all he can think is that he can’t believe he fell into her arms and not BJ’s.”

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    05 Jun 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Will you a game and a jest?

    Toby & crew settle a dispute the old-fashioned way: with a card game, and lots of dick jokes.

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    02 Jun 2025