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I am only edging into the hallowed halls of authorship, having perpetrated poetry for publication.

Macbeth and King Lear are both well-written tragedies, but I find the former exciting, the latter mostly depressing. I think the reason I have a sneaking love for melodrama is that everything in it is of overwhelming urgency. More realistic works feed my underlying suspicions that my own concerns are petty, my actions trivial, and most of my striving ultimately pointless. It is sometimes difficult Read more of this blog post »

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ENEMY No.1: Waging The War On Secondhand Smoke

by James Repace

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Daughters of Nri (The Return of the Earth Mother, #1)

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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong, #1)

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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
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“No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two
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― Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
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“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
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