Lost Horizon by James Hilton book review

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Jolly good story about Shangri-La Monastery in Tibet mountains. Communal living in moderation. Away from all VACKED PEOPLE, away from incomprehensible CORPORATE CAPITAL system of fake money, away from FBI, away from corrupt LE, away from paid-off goon squad, away from stalker spook assassins, away from fake money forces of all kinds.

A great way to spend your life.

SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE WICKED.

Enjoy yourself at Shangri-La.

Maybe you’ll live a good long life if you have the correct haplotype.

Lost Horizon by Hilton

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Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Book last read: 2023-09-13 21:54:24
Percentage read: 100%

Chapter 1: PROLOGUE
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Chapter progress: 2.78%
Highlight: It was never concealed from anyone who had any real reason for wanting to know it.
Notes: Covid scam

Chapter 1: PROLOGUE
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Chapter progress: 2.78%
Highlight: It was hushed up, you see – I mean, about the way the thing happened.
Notes: Plummeting birth rates and myocarditis.

Chapter 1: PROLOGUE
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Chapter progress: 4.17%
Highlight: Our civilisation doesn’t often breed people like that nowadays.
Notes: Real men.

Chapter 2: Chapter 1
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Chapter progress: 10.42%
Highlight: beset with public school limitations,
Notes: Lol

Chapter 2: Chapter 1
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Chapter progress: 15.97%
Highlight: Authority likes to feel that a man is imposing some effort on himself, and that his apparent nonchalance is only a cloak to disguise an outfit of well-bred emotions.

Chapter 5: Chapter 4
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Chapter progress: 31.94%
Highlight: I often think that the Romans were fortunate; their civilisation reached as far as hot baths without touching the fatal knowledge of machinery.’

Notes: Techno religion is hell.

Chapter 6: Chapter 5
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Chapter progress: 39.58%
Highlight: I dare say they’ve got pots of money hidden away, like the Jesuits.

Chapter 6: Chapter 5
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Chapter progress: 41.67%
Highlight: Antonio de Andrada

Chapter 7: Chapter 6
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Chapter progress: 47.22%
Highlight: it is possible that many religions are moderately true.

Chapter 7: Chapter 6
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Chapter progress: 49.31%
Highlight: So far as he had had experience of women at all, it had been tentative, intermittent, and somewhat inconclusive.

Chapter 7: Chapter 6
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Chapter progress: 50.0%
Highlight: we believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.’

Notes: Slave mask on children.

Chapter 8: Chapter 7
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Chapter progress: 53.47%
Highlight: High finance,’ he said, ‘is mostly a lot of bunk.’

Chapter 8: Chapter 7
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Chapter progress: 54.86%
Highlight: the whole game’s going to pieces
Notes: Covid scam.

Chapter 8: Chapter 7
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Chapter progress: 55.56%
Highlight: ‘I would sooner live like a Dervish with the Mahdi than go out to dinner every night in London.

Chapter 8: Chapter 7
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Chapter progress: 57.64%
Highlight: heroic Jesuit missionaries

Chapter 9: Chapter 8
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Chapter progress: 65.28%
Highlight: Our best subjects, undoubtedly, are the Nordic and Latin races of Europe;

Chapter 9: Chapter 8
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Chapter progress: 68.06%
Highlight: But I’m afraid I still hanker after some more definite reason for envying the centenarian.

Chapter 10: Chapter 9
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Chapter progress: 72.92%
Highlight: Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?’
Notes: Slacken the tension.

Chapter 11: Chapter 10
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Chapter progress: 82.64%
Highlight: It’s extraordinary what people will believe.’

Notes: Face mask ritual.

Chapter 12: Chapter 11
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Chapter progress: 90.97%
Highlight: It didn’t strike you that such a story needed any confirmation at all?
Notes: Covid scam.

Chapter 13: EPILOGUE
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Chapter progress: 99.31%
Highlight: A Short Walk in Shangri-La is a rich and very readable brew from a well-loved author.

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