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TootTropiques

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Ethnobotanist, sensory anthropologist, polyglot and filmmaker living and working in the Amazon. Migrating from birdsite as @TweetTropiques. Blogging at "Notes from the Ethnoground": https://ethnoground.blogspot.com
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/ethnoground
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"Maybe all this is just what follows when you keep putting it about that cruelty is a virtue."

-- Martin Amis

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"You can't have the fantasies and the reality. You can't have the best of both worlds."
"You've just blown a hole in the Liberal Liberal Party electoral platform."

--Len Deighton

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Indigenous forest guardian and defender of isolated peoples Beto Marubo sends a powerful message to elite academic community during recent conference at Yale University. Shown here with journalist Scott Wallace and yrs truly.

https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/daniel-camargos/o-recado-de-beto-marubo-para-a-elite-intelectual-dos-eua/

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"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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@jancampbellcady @bookstodon I second Mick Herron!

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@jancampbellcady @bookstodon Hmm, interesting concept. I thought Oldman nailed it.

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"The huge green olives rolled like eyes"

--Len Deighton's unparalleled description of a martini

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"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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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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"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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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.

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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

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@asakiyume @bookstodon Indeed!

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

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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

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"A writer is never trustworthy."

--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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"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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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Indeed! Reading for a second time now, definitely worth revisiting!

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

@bookstodon #vatican #Christianity #ShroudOfTurin

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

-- Dirk Wittenborn, 'Pharmakon'

@bookstodon #psychology #psychedelics

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@Jennifer @bookstodon I discovered it entirely by chance and found it quite engrossing, especially since I have a background in ethnobotany. A profound examination of the psychological, social and pharmacological foundations of happiness. I also read the more recent novel The Stone Girl by the same author and liked it as well.

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@asakiyume @bookstodon I really enjoyed it! It is very long and somewhat meandering, a single family's story across over 40 years, but the ethnobotany angle had me hooked!

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@asakiyume @bookstodon A few loose ends left untied as well, but then again that's life.

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@asakiyume @bookstodon A few loose ends left untied as well, but then again that's life.

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

--Haruki Murakami

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

--Dirk Wittenborn, Pharmakon

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@stephenwhq @bookstodon Yes!

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"The fish trap is sun bleached dry half
buried in squeaking white
sand under an equatorial
moon..."

Thanks to @SAPIENS_org for reposting my prize-winning 2020 poem "The Fish Trap" in honor of #WorldPoetryDay

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/world-poetry-day-fish-trap/

@anthropology @bookstodon #writing #poetry

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

--Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

@bookstodon #writing #murakami

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

--Haruki Murakami

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"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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"A man who wears yellow socks is capable of anything."
-- Mick Herron
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"Anyone who claims novel writing becomes easier with time is either lying or not doing it right"

-- Olen Steinhauer

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"Nothing can be always. It's the first thing a smell teaches you."

--Erica Bauermeister

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Narcos, shamans, clean water and the awakening of the Matsigenka Nation: "In Search of Yomibato" is an in-depth report by Martin Ibarrola about the new indigenous realities in Manu National Park in Peru, with support from the Pulitzer Center (and some cameo anthropologizing by yrs truly!)

https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2024-02-01/yomibato-tribu-amazonas_3821633/

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"All those decades of the arms race, and it turned out there was no greater damage you could inflict on a state than ensure it was lead by an idiot."

--Mick Herron

@bookstodon #sloughhouse #SlowHorses

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"Spend enough time shadow boxing and your shadow starts to hit back"

--Mick Herron
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