antediluvian

“That’s when I began passing as a man. Strange to be exiled from your own sex to borders that will never be home.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Perhaps religion is like a ship that has carried us across the ocean, having allowed us to develop huge societies with a well-functioning morality. Now that we are spotting land, some of us are ready to disembark”
― Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

“Her skin was soft, softer than I remembered, as if she was rotten too, a fallen Eve. Under us I could hear the apples rumble. Not a real sound, but a sort of internal buzzing, like how you can imagine hearing nails and hair growing or buds opening.”
― Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot

“The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life," the doctor said. "Now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon there will be no wilderness." He sipped at his bourbon and ice. "Soon there will be no place to go. Then the madness becomes universal." Another thought. "And the universe goes mad.”
― Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang