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I watched the Amazon adaptation and then moved to the books just to compare and JESUS, is there some Poe's Law style thing where 'critique' of sadism and misogyny and homophobia are just exactly the same as sadism and misogyny and homophobia. The art
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“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.”
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And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.”
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“I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea.”
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“Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I’ll show you a bully and bore.”
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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
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are. They are different. ”
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