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Sugar Street

by Naguib Mahfouz

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

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Her son pulled on the leash and turned back to his mother. Go! Go! he said, pointing, and she unhooked him, and he took off toward the other children, a boy again, or perhaps still a dog of a sort, but one that wanted to see the dead snake, ...more

The mother appears to only think of herself in terms of human or dog but her son sort of slips between or embodies both. Maybe this represents childhood and the way kids learn through play and stay pliable - she thinks she has changed and doesn't recognize herself but maybe the point is that she'll be happy once she accepts all of herself - whether we are talking about the supernatural dog/ human or the equally challenging woman/mother and working/SAHM bits.

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”
― Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women

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“Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: frustration, humor, laughter

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“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: doubt, terrifying, vile

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“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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