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Julia Scheeres
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Rare Jonestown footage
Jones used the following video footage to lure his followers to Guyana, South America:
http://youtu.be/aTOuo837nX0
http://youtu.be/aTOuo837nX0
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“It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.”
― Jesus Land: A Memoir
― Jesus Land: A Memoir
“If anything, the people who moved to Jonestown should be remembered as noble idealists. They wanted to create a better, more equitable, society. They wanted their kids to be free of violence and racism. They rejected sexist gender roles. They believed in a dream. How terribly they were betrayed.”
― A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
― A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
“One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some African countries as a coming-of-age rite to control their sexuality, Westerners denounce it as genital mutilation; in the U.S. of A., it's called cosmetic enhancement. But both procedures are based on misogynist notions of female genitalia as ugly, dirty, and shameful. And though American procedures are generally performed under vastly better conditions (with the benefit of, say, anesthesia and antibiotics), the postsurgical results can be similarly horrific, involving loss of sensation, chronic pain, and infection.”
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Book Nook Cafe: What I read in October 2011 | 48 | 49 | Nov 13, 2011 06:40PM | |
| The Life of a Boo...: Shay's 2012 Individual Reading Goals | 47 | 103 | Mar 02, 2012 03:32AM | |
| Book Nook Cafe: What I read February 2012 | 73 | 72 | Mar 09, 2012 01:14PM | |
| Historical Fictio...: Challenge #9: Report Points Here | 252 | 137 | Apr 04, 2012 11:42AM | |
| The History Book ...: BEST 2010/2011 READ | 27 | 141 | Apr 05, 2012 08:27PM | |
| Around the World ...: Linda S 2011-12 Trekker | 26 | 69 | Jul 05, 2012 03:12PM | |
| One Million Pages...: Shay's 1,000,000 pages | 752 | 294 | Oct 05, 2012 11:57PM | |
The Seasonal Read...:
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| Challenge: 50 Books: Tiffani Tore Up 2012! (100 books and beyond!) | 149 | 175 | Dec 31, 2012 07:32PM |
“At the Moor
Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillness of the moor. In the gray sky
A flock of wild birds follows;
Slanting over gloomy waters.
Turmoil. In decayed hut
The spirit of putrescence flutters with black wings.
Crippled birches in the autumn wind.
Evening in deserted tavern. The way home is scented all around
By the soft gloom of grazing herds;
Apparition of the night; toads plunge from brown waters.”
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Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillness of the moor. In the gray sky
A flock of wild birds follows;
Slanting over gloomy waters.
Turmoil. In decayed hut
The spirit of putrescence flutters with black wings.
Crippled birches in the autumn wind.
Evening in deserted tavern. The way home is scented all around
By the soft gloom of grazing herds;
Apparition of the night; toads plunge from brown waters.”
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“But this is also one of the most compelling elements in travel, the feeling of dread underneath everything, it makes sensations heightened and acute, the world is charged with a power it doesn’t have in ordinary life.”
― In a Strange Room
― In a Strange Room
“Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you’re moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided any more, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border is a line on a map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere.”
― In a Strange Room
― In a Strange Room
“The dialogue and the gestures are tinny and false, like some kind of bright paper wrapped around the meaning of the moment.”
― In a Strange Room
― In a Strange Room
“That line from the Iliad, “Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.”
― Monkey Boy: A Novel
― Monkey Boy: A Novel
