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L.M. Rapp

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L.M. Rapp is the author of Of Flesh and Tears, Discordant Hearts and Dreadful Beauty. Since childhood, she’s been both troubled and fascinated by the animal side of human beings, and the small gap that sometimes separates our so-called civilized world from nature. Where does the animal end and the human begin? She explores this duality, as magnificent as it is monstrous, through her novels and short stories. It is perhaps because we are all, to varying degrees, chimeras. L.M. lives in Batsra, Israel, and devotes her time to writing.

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L.M. Rapp I’m currently writing a collection of short stories, in which each tale—set in diverse worlds (medieval, contemporary, fantasy…)—explores metamorphosi…moreI’m currently writing a collection of short stories, in which each tale—set in diverse worlds (medieval, contemporary, fantasy…)—explores metamorphosis as an act of survival. From mermaids to vampires, transformation—physical or psychological—becomes the driving force to keep existing.
Je travaille actuellement à l’écriture d’un recueil de nouvelles intitulé Métamorphoses, où chaque récit explore, dans des univers variés (médiéval, contemporain, fantastique…), la métamorphose comme acte de survie. À travers des figures allant de la sirène au vampire, c’est la transformation — physique ou psychologique — qui devient le moteur du désir de continuer à exister.(less)
L.M. Rapp She opened the drawer and, instead of cutlery, saw the face of a man staring up at her.
He blinked — she shut the drawer with a sharp snap.…more
She opened the drawer and, instead of cutlery, saw the face of a man staring up at her.
He blinked — she shut the drawer with a sharp snap.(less)
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Though food cannot carry a novel on its own, it can slip in as a secondary character, enriching the story with unexpected flavors and textures.
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“A terrorist, I think, is simply another kind of pornographer. The pornographer pretends he is disgusted by his work; the terrorist pretends he is uninterested in the means. The ends, they say, are what they care about. But they are both lying. Ernst loved his pornography; Ernst worshiped the means. It is never the ends that matter -- it is only the means that matter. The terrorist and the pornographer are in it for the means. The means is everything to them. The blast of the bomb, the elephant position, the Schlagobers and blood -- they love it all. Their intellectual detachment is a fraud; their indifference is feigned. They both tell lies about having ‘higher purposes.’ A terrorist is a pornographer.”
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

Sophocles
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”
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Marcel Proust
“Mais, quand d’un passé ancien rien ne subsiste, après la mort des êtres, après la destruction des choses, seules, plus frêles mais plus vivaces, plus immatérielles, plus persistantes, plus fidèles, l’odeur et la saveur restent encore longtemps, comme des âmes, à se rappeler, à attendre, à espérer, sur la ruine de tout le reste, à porter sans fléchir, sur leur gouttelette presque impalpable, l’édifice immense du souvenir.”
Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann

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