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In the indeterminate conditions of environmental damage, nature is suddenly unfamiliar again. How shall we find our way? Perhaps sensibilities from folklore and science fiction—such as monsters and ghosts—will help. While ghosts (which
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“Graduation day means you must now do something with your life. You must grow up and buy your own train tickets, accrue student debt so you can become part of the machine. You must pick a major. The light comes only after that. Sorry about saying that graduation is the light at the end of the tunnel. That was a lie.”
― Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
― Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America. And”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
Adolescent Literature: EDUC 1090
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For students enrolled in EDUC 1090.
Angela Carter Reading Group
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This is a book group devoted to the writings of the British 20th-century author Angela Carter (1940-1992). It complements my Angela Carter Bookclub, w ...more
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