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The Chinese Garden

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Anarchism Is Not Enough

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Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention (Gothic Literary Studies)

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“Creating herself. Creating themselves. The performance of it. The confusion of it. The pleasure of it...Making a life. Making a life with love in it. Creating a body with no shame in it...Creating a body of work. That no one else could have written.”
― Deborah Levy, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

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“She would always remember how "excited young voices criss-crossed.... Little tongues of flame leapt up from person to person, and the whole attic was humming and sizzling like dry birch bark set aflame, throwing into the dark, dense night of the shtetl the voices' challenge and yearning.”
― Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

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“There's a dance of fireflies, little lights turning around the boats of the Bay, tiny creatures chanting, fish jumping-the feast of early summer subsiding in the heat, and lemonades!”
― Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence

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“My role combined diverse functions: priest, undertaker, uncle, at moments a theatrical producer, or an industrialist, Julia the commodity I was selling, or Julia was the event itself, the festival I was arranging.”
― Susan Taubes, Lament for Julia, and Other Stories

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“With Julia I have always felt like a child actor playing a female role. Was it to please others? What I wanted was of course to accomplish the act of deception. Yet not primarily to deceive others. This was simply a necessity. I had to present a face. No, I wanted to play a woman, it was my pleasure.”
― Susan Taubes, Lament for Julia, and Other Stories

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