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Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient

by Edward W. Said

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“no, purgatorium could surely be worse, cause look, at least there are blackbirds in it”
― Alit Smith

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“as long as we associate food preparation with "love" and "family," while a capitalist economy continually erodes the ties that bind, we will continue to reproduce these variations on nostalgia for the real”
― David E. Sutton, Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory

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“all I could think of all that week was flowers for breath and flowers for eyes and mouths full of flowers, armpits of them, the backs of knees, laps, groins overflowing with flowers and all I could draw was leaves and flowers, the whorls of roses, the dark foliage.”
― Ali Smith

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