iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

“A Christmas Carol not The Signalman, Canterville Ghost perhaps but not Lost Hearts, the English ghost story it’s marvellous one of the things” Jerusalem — Alan Moore

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“His soul came out of hiding.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 21h

“bellows to himself in the darkness behind his eye” Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 30/09/2026

“Be fully aware of what you’re doing, and work becomes the yoga of work, play becomes the yoga of play, everyday living becomes the yoga of everyday living.” Island — Aldous Huxley

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 30/09/2026

“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.” Walden — Henry David Thoreau

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 30/09/2026

“stiff as Medusa's optometrist.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 29/09/2026

“Corporations that run private prisons and detention centers made over five billion dollars in combined annual profits in the United States over the past decade.” Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 28/09/2026

““Because it doesn’t fit your principles. Men always have theories, and things always have to fit them.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 28/09/2026

“In the Red Bull mirror behind the counter, the cartoon bull noticed her, winked. She dodged eye contact. She hated it when they spoke to you, called you by your name.” The Peripheral — William Gibson

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 28/09/2026

“Beliefs, like communicable diseases, are highly infectious.” Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe — Richard Holloway

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 27/09/2026

“Hence we nowhere find a more shameless squandering of human labour-power for despicable purposes than in England, the land of machinery.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 26/09/2026

“The giant stands on this sheet of paper, and we can only see the trace where its feet touch the paper.” The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 26/09/2026

“No sane man trusts the British justice system.” Shantaram: A Novel — Gregory David Roberts

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 25/09/2026

““While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 25/09/2026

“You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 24/09/2026

“Mucho Maas, home, bounded through the screen door. “Today was another defeat,” he began.” The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 24/09/2026

“Simply on the basis of its temporality, digital communication conveys affect more than it transmits feeling. Shitstorms are streams of affect. They represent exemplary phenomena of digital communication.” Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power — Byung-Chul Han and Erik Butler

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 23/09/2026

“He might have warmed up more to culture if it didn’t act quite so compulsory.” Jerusalem — Alan Moore

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 23/09/2026

“The proud pragmatism of civilized intelligence was being insulted again by goofy nature.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 23/09/2026

“The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.” The Valley of Fear — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 22/09/2026

“What’s the point of physics if you can’t trust it with your life?” The Freeze-Frame Revolution — Peter Watts

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 22/09/2026

“The giant stands on this sheet of paper, and we can only see the trace where its feet touch the paper.” The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 22/09/2026

“The production of surplus-value, or the making of profits, is the absolute law of this mode of production.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 22/09/2026

““One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one’s merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.” Island — Aldous Huxley

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 21/09/2026

“policies that illegalize human beings are legal and moral fictions.” Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 21/09/2026

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 20/09/2026

“this fact implies the latent possibility of replacing metallic money with tokens made of some other material, i.e. symbols which would perform the function of coins.” Capital: Volume I — Karl Marx

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 20/09/2026

“To be dealt with fairly was his earnest wish, but he knew of no reason why he should be singled out among human beings for such treatment.” The Etched City — K.J. Bishop

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 19/09/2026

“We all believe many things which we have no good ground for believing, because, subconsciously, our nature craves certain kinds of action which these beliefs would render reasonable if they were true.” Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 19/09/2026

“The proud pragmatism of civilized intelligence was being insulted again by goofy nature.” Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel — Tom Robbins

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 19/09/2026

“but if they did not laugh, it not would not be the teaching of the Tao.” Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu and Robert Brookes

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 18/09/2026

“From where you are, you can hear their dreams.” Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 18/09/2026

“The recombinant food thing was a declaration of mental bankruptcy in the complexity of modern material culture.” Reamde: A Novel — Neal Stephenson

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 17/09/2026

“Elementary ecology leads straight to elementary Buddhism.” Island — Aldous Huxley

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 17/09/2026

““Because it doesn’t fit your principles. Men always have theories, and things always have to fit them.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 17/09/2026

“Mikami cut the switch to his emotions as a reflex.” Six Four — Hideo Yokoyama and Jonathan Lloyd-Davies

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 17/09/2026

“A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.” The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 16/09/2026

“Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.” The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 16/09/2026

“Owing chiefly to industrialism, many needs which were formerly satisfied without effort” Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 16/09/2026

“He grinned back with the front of his face” For Whom The Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 15/09/2026

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 15/09/2026

“Naturally, I was asleep. As dead to the world as an old anvil.” Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami and Philip Gabriel

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 15/09/2026

“A prolific critic of necessity must say many absurd things. The test is, once a body of articles has passed your eye, whether the intelligence and acumen is more memorable than the absurdity.” Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany and William Gibson

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 14/09/2026

“Shorting civilization and imagining living on in some fortress island of the mind was another fantasy of escape, one of many that rich people entertained, as ridiculous as retreating to Mars.” The Ministry for the Future: A Novel — Kim Stanley Robinson

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 14/09/2026

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 14/09/2026

“I see no need up in the sky for more torture chambers and Bingo games.” Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 13/09/2026

“They loved democracy because they hated Germany; but they thought they hated Germany because they loved democracy.” Why Men Fight — Bertrand Russell

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 13/09/2026

“The heels of her oxblood boots struck the waxed floor loudly, advertising her traveling whereabouts like a GPS.” Flight Behavior — Barbara Kingsolver

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 13/09/2026

“Borders also factionalize heterogeneous communities and rigidify allegiances to artificially homogenized statist nationalisms.” Undoing Border Imperialism — Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith

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bookbot @books.eddsteel.com · 12/09/2026

“it really is astonishing that we can read at all.” The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes

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