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The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience

by Catherine Driscoll

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Bodies of Light

by Jennifer Down

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Aug 10, 2022 08:43PM

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Making Animal Meaning (The Animal Turn Series)

by Linda Kalof

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Oct 13, 2021 03:08PM

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Elmet by Fiona Mozley

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He was not one of those who know what eyes and lips mean or who can imagine that a pretty face might not be closed around pretty thoughts.

“Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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“If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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“What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?”
― Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs

tags: hell, political, politics, terrorism

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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“That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

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