Sylvia Veronica
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“Perhaps my favorite crone heroine of all time is Marian Leatherby, the deaf, toothless, ninety-two-year-old protagonist of The Hearing Trumpet, a novel written by Surrealist luminary Leonora Carrington. Marian sports a short gray beard that she finds “rather gallant,” and she has a dear geriatric friend named Carmella who states, “People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
― Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
― Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
“Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.”
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“Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.”
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“Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.”
― The Seventh Horse and Other Tales
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.”
― The Seventh Horse and Other Tales
Endicott Mythic Fiction
— 283 members
— last activity Jul 02, 2016 11:20PM
The Endicott Mythic Fiction group is now closed. The group focused on books inspired by "myth, folklore, fairy tales, and the oral storytelling tradi ...more
Into the Forest
— 2127 members
— last activity 3 hours, 47 min ago
A group to discuss the fairy and folk tales, world mythologies, mythic fiction, magical realism fiction, and monsters. Of course, we also discuss rete ...more
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