Alyssa
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“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
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“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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Fantasy, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, race, ethnicity, ahistory, alternate-history, anthropology, bizarro-fiction, cartography, class, criticism, cultural-studies, esoterica, geography, speculative-fiction, phrenology, political-science, surreal, theory, walking, latin-american, linguistics, magical-realism, and colonialism
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