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Actually, you’re crazy. But really, you purposefully set it up. Truly, you’re lying, but also, you just imagined it. In actuality, you weren’t good at staging a crime, but at the same time, you didn’t mean to. You’re paranoid, hysterical,
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“It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother's heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother's blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear. Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mother's ovary. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born. And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother. We all share the blood of the first mother. We are truly children of one blood.”
― When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
― When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
“It's hard to explain, Cass, she said one night in my room, her arms around me.
It's a look that comes in a different way or that you send out in a different way. It's just a tiny bit longer than a normal look. And it's completely still, it's not moving with a smile or talking or even eyes squinting or your eyebrows lifting up or anything at all. It's totally frozen, like a deer in headlights. It's frozen by a thought that has just hijacked your brain for that second and that's why it lasts too long, because you have to rescue your brain from the hijacker.
I asked her what that thought was that could hijack your brain and freeze your face like that.
It's the thought that you want that person.”
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It's a look that comes in a different way or that you send out in a different way. It's just a tiny bit longer than a normal look. And it's completely still, it's not moving with a smile or talking or even eyes squinting or your eyebrows lifting up or anything at all. It's totally frozen, like a deer in headlights. It's frozen by a thought that has just hijacked your brain for that second and that's why it lasts too long, because you have to rescue your brain from the hijacker.
I asked her what that thought was that could hijack your brain and freeze your face like that.
It's the thought that you want that person.”
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