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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.”
― Warm Bodies
― Warm Bodies
“The perfume that her body exhaled was of the quality of that earth-flesh, fungi, which smells of captured dampness and yet is so dry, overcast with the odour of oil of amber, which is an inner malady of the sea, making her seem as if she had invaded a sleep incautious and entire. Her flesh was the texture of plant life, and beneath it one sensed a frame, broad, porous and sleep-worn, as if sleep were a decay fishing her beneath the visible surface. About her head there was an effulgence as of phosphorous glowing about the circumference of a body of water - as if her life lay through her in ungainly luminous deteriorations - the troubling structure of the born somnambule.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
― Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
“Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
― Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
― Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Vaginal Fantasy Book Club
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Forum for the Vaginal Fantasy Book Club hosted by Felicia Day, Veronica Belmont, Kiala Kazebee and Bonnie Burton. From January 2012 to April 2018, the ...more
The Sword and Laser
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Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more
The World's Literature in India
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Literature from the languages of India. Photos: Crowded street in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Indian peafowls, relatives of the pheasant.
The Penguin Press
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— last activity Mar 28, 2017 12:09PM
Welcome to our Goodreads Group for The Penguin Press! We like to say that we publish "ideas that matter and storytelling that lasts," and some of our ...more
Ask Mary Roach - Wednesday, April 10th!
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— last activity Sep 19, 2022 12:25PM
Join us on Wednesday, April 10th for a special discussion with author Mary Roach! Mary will be discussing her work, including her most recent book Gul ...more
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