Allelomimesis, says Nick. What a fine word to learn. It means that clustering mechanism that drives starlings to ball together several million strong, or a thousand flying waders to swerve into a new course, seemingly as one organism.
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“The community of nations has in the past claimed and successfully asserted the right to intercede on behalf of the violated rights of man trampled upon by the State in a manner calculated to shock the moral sense of mankind.”
― East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
― East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
― I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids (emotional outcasts of a war they had been too young to join, or in which they had lost their innocence), who had never belonged anywhere before, now felt somewhere at last.”
― Go: A Novel
― Go: A Novel
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