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“Language does not simply name pre-existing categories; categories do not exist in 'the world”
― Daniel Chandler, Semiotics for Beginners

“With a wave of this body’s hand all the braziers are snuffed out in this Inverted Theater. The movement is sudden, as is the disappearance of the light, the darkness you are submerged in so complete you can feel it as a presence that surrounds you, blocking sight of even your own hand”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“People want to be the ones drawing the lines, building the boxes, making the names. Maybe because stories live inside all those structures, and if you're the one controlling the stories, then you're the one in power.”
― Akwaeke Emezi

“It will be a whole idea soon, and then oh, unconscious cerebration, you will have to give the wall to your conscious brother.”
― Bram Stoker