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"Don’t give me your tenets & laws. Don’t give me your lukewarm gods. I want an accounting with all three cultures - white, Mexican, Indian. I want the freedom to carve & chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods from my entrails. And if going home is denied, then I stand and stake my space, una cultura mestiza, with my own lumber, my own bricks, & my own feminist architecture." — Nov 09, 2025 07:07PM
"Don’t give me your tenets & laws. Don’t give me your lukewarm gods. I want an accounting with all three cultures - white, Mexican, Indian. I want the freedom to carve & chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods from my entrails. And if going home is denied, then I stand and stake my space, una cultura mestiza, with my own lumber, my own bricks, & my own feminist architecture." — Nov 09, 2025 07:07PM
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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As I read on, I was even more shocked to learn that doctors once made these skin books as luxury items for their private rare book collections. There was one doctor, Joseph Leidy, whose personal copy of his book, An Elementary Treatise on
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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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“The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.”
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
― Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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