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Karena Bakas
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Sebald showed me that we live in all times and places at once. His central preoccupation was a kind of physics, an attempt to define and describe what he called “the laws governing the return of the past.” The past is all in there, all the
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“But whatever sameness I’ve noted in my relationships with women is not the sameness of Woman, and certainly not the sameness of parts. Rather, it is the shared, crushing understanding of what it means to live in a patriarchy.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”
― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
Chicago Book Club
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