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"O, it is excellent/ To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/ To use it like a giant"

    -Shakespeare (Measure for Measure)

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About Mens Agitat Molem

  • "Mens agitat molem" means "mind moves matter" from Virgil's Aeneid (book 6, line 727)

Bookshelf

  • Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan

    Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan

  • Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)

    Patrick Rothfuss: The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)

  • Michael Ende: The Neverending Story

    Michael Ende: The Neverending Story

  • Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • Christopher Payne: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

    Christopher Payne: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

  • Jonah Lehrer: How We Decide

    Jonah Lehrer: How We Decide

  • Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

    Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

  • Lauren Slater: Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

    Lauren Slater: Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century

  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

  • Daniel J. Levitin: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

    Daniel J. Levitin: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

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