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"This is basically a huge scholarly paper and it is horrifying and I am enjoying it. It's a little slow-going, partly due to academic language but more due to the really really messed up implications." — Oct 19, 2017 05:32AM
"This is basically a huge scholarly paper and it is horrifying and I am enjoying it. It's a little slow-going, partly due to academic language but more due to the really really messed up implications." — Oct 19, 2017 05:32AM
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"I am almost halfway through this book and so far there have been zero dolls OR mothers" — Jan 05, 2018 06:11AM
"I am almost halfway through this book and so far there have been zero dolls OR mothers" — Jan 05, 2018 06:11AM
It was a great chariot, perhaps eight times the height of a man, as wide as the trail, constructed of parts of living human bodies welded together in an obscene tangle. A thousand legs and arms pawed the ground; a thousand more beat the
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“Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn’t spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.”
― The Loop
― The Loop
“All of that requires that they do what you’re talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you’re not even human to them. You’re a unit of something else. They rename you ‘test subject’ or ‘enemy,’ or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don’t have to think about you anymore.”
― The Loop
― The Loop
“It was hard to venture back near the place you’d been bred without settling into the characteristics of the person you’d been there.”
― Heart-Shaped Box
― Heart-Shaped Box
“The telephone, though a remarkable device, is not designed for real communication, for the heavy lifting of personal interaction. For the big stuff, you have to be in the same physical space. Questions are asked and answered on a chemical level: Our species lived and loved and dealt with each other for millions of years before we developed language. It’s still only ever background music.”
― The Intruders
― The Intruders
“Over two thousand Byzantine manuscripts devoted to medical works survive in European libraries. A third of these contain works by a single author such as the second-century Galen of Pergamon; the remaining manuscripts have selections from different classical and Byzantine medical writers. In this second group of manuscripts, scattered among the selections culled from treatises by well-known physicians, are many anonymous antidotaria—lists of pharmaceutical treatments for specific diseases, some as long as eighty-five folios.”
― Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
― Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
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