Last book you read. Page 42, fifth sentence

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  1. jackdaniel0 Twilight Town Denizen

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  2. jafar custom title

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    "Since neither noncoercive action nor unprincipled knowing can in the strict sense objectify a world or any element in it—that is, make discrete and independent objects out of out of one's environing experience—the desiring associated with the Daoist sensibility is in the strictest sense "objectless."

    from the Philosophical Introduction of the Dao De Jing. Not a part of the Dao De Jing itself, rather commentary from the translators.
     
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  4. Makaze Some kind of mercenary

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    You read Dune?

    An outstretched hand.
     
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    "And all the more reason I'd sooner bed down in the dungeon."

    Pretty spot-on.
     
  6. Makaze Some kind of mercenary

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    I really need to read that book.

    And you should read The Name of the Wind when you get done with that series.
     
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    Your Bene Gesserit skills are infallible.
     
  9. Makaze Some kind of mercenary

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    Well played.

    Which book?
     
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  11. Styx That's me inside your head.

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    The first one, i.e. Dune itself.
     
  12. Makaze Some kind of mercenary

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    Weren't you also reading it last year? Or was that someone else?
     
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    Go get it you bum.
     
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