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""God God! It is horrible! He is not better than a mummy!"....
"She says he is a great soul. A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. Cadwallader.
"What business has an old bachelor like that to marry!" said Sir James. "He has one foot in the grave."
"He means to draw it out again, I suppose"" — Sep 29, 2025 10:04PM
""God God! It is horrible! He is not better than a mummy!"....
"She says he is a great soul. A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. Cadwallader.
"What business has an old bachelor like that to marry!" said Sir James. "He has one foot in the grave."
"He means to draw it out again, I suppose"" — Sep 29, 2025 10:04PM
“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around.”
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“We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.
Because the anger at having been wronged... doesn't vanish because you say to someone, "I forgive you." Rather forgiveness is an obligation you take on not to act punitively on your anger. To interrogate it when it arises, and accept that you have made the choice to be constructive rather than destructive. Not that you have made the choice never to be angry again.
But anger can also make you sick, if you're exposed to it for too long.... The anger itself can be your reason for living, and feeding it can be your only goal....”
― Ancestral Night
Because the anger at having been wronged... doesn't vanish because you say to someone, "I forgive you." Rather forgiveness is an obligation you take on not to act punitively on your anger. To interrogate it when it arises, and accept that you have made the choice to be constructive rather than destructive. Not that you have made the choice never to be angry again.
But anger can also make you sick, if you're exposed to it for too long.... The anger itself can be your reason for living, and feeding it can be your only goal....”
― Ancestral Night
“If I could describe a 'human being' I would be more than I am - and probably living in the future, because I think of human beings as something to do with the luminous image you see in a bright child's eyes - the exploring, wondering, eagerly grasping, undestructive quest for life. I see that undescribed spirit as central to us all.”
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“[H]uman relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time pulling away frm them.”
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“Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire. I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts. I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatrual process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.”
― My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage
― My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage
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