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The Six Loves of James I

by Gareth Russell (Goodreads Author)

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An Anthropologist on Mars

by Oliver Sacks

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Book cover for Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

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They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.

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“My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that’s not a future I want to live in.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

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“It takes a long time for white guys to appreciate that they are breakable. They do not live from birth with the daily fear that they might be attacked or detained or killed. Their bodies are not constant targets of power. Their bodies are power, so they throw those bodies up and down mountains and stairs and out of airplanes and into pointless online yelling matches for fun. They just presume they will survive.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

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“Every ending is an arbitrary one. Every ending is, from another angle, not really an ending.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

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“Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.

Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.

(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")”
― Cameron Awkward-Rich, Transit

tags: gender, poetry

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“Thank all the gods,” said Sphene. “I was afraid you were going to suggest we sing that song about the thousand eggs.” “A thousand eggs all nice and warm,” I sang. “Crack, crack, crack, a little chick is born. Peep peep peep peep! Peep peep peep peep!” “Why, Fleet Captain,” Translator Zeiat exclaimed, “that’s a charming song! Why haven’t I heard you sing it before now?” I took a breath. “Nine hundred ninety-nine eggs all nice and warm…” “Crack, crack, crack,” Translator Zeiat joined me, her voice a bit breathy but otherwise quite pleasant, “a little chick is born. Peep peep peep peep! What fun! Are there more verses?” “Nine hundred and ninety-eight of them, Translator,” I said. “We’re not cousins anymore,” said Sphene.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

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