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Book cover for Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016
Like Bowie’s Sixties “childhood” songs, it’s a boy’s idea of manhood as being like joining a Scout troop. Uncage the colors! Unfurl the flag! A bisexual man imagining a gay fantasy of straight life. Masculinity as a pose, an absurdity, an ...more
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Virginia Woolf
“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

Virginia Woolf
“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Tilly Lawless
“You may think these streets are yours to walk, but they belonged to someone else before: the queers, the hobos, the junkies, the trannies, the prozzies - those streets were theirs before they were yours so be careful, you may find you have to wipe your shoes clean before going into your nice apartment.”
Tilly Lawless, Nothing but My Body

Virginia Woolf
“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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